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Modern Persuasion review – Austen in Manhattan is a load of old bonnets

Last modified on Wed 3 Feb 2021 14.23 EST Do we need a defensive ring of steel petticoats erected around Jane Austen’s novels – something, anything to stop them being updated into perky formulaic romcoms like this? Modern Persuasion is, to state the obvious, a modern version of Austen’s last (and arguably best) novel Persuasion: the story of Anne Elliot, who at 27 – still a mere slip of a girl – is staring down the barrel of spinsterdom. Eight years earlier she made the terrible mistake of turning down an offer of marriage from a penniless naval officer. The film-makers have meticulously transferred the book’s characters and plotting – and, to be fair, some of its warmth – to modern-day New York. But lost in adaptation is any trace of Austen’s wit and razor-sharp satire.

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Modern Persuasion review: Alicia Witt s appealing presence powers half-hearted Jane Austen update

This article originally appeared on Variety. Back in 1995, in the midst of cinema s brief fixation with Jane Austen, director Roger Michell made the definitive film of Persuasion : as literate and elegant as it was underestimated upon release. That same year, Amy Heckerling set the bar for modernized Austen adaptations with her lithely funny and era-defining Emma riff Clueless. A quarter-century later, the straightforwardly titled Modern Persuasion falls some way short of either benchmark. Refashioning Austen s bittersweet final novel about love surmounting prickly English class politics as a peppy romantic comedy of missed connections among the moneyed New York media set, Alex Appel and Jonathan Lisecki s film is both too innocuous and too flatly imagined to stir much feeling either way.

Modern Persuasion Review: Alicia Witt s Appealing Presence Powers a Half-Hearted Jane Austen Update

Modern Persuasion Review: Alicia Witt s Appealing Presence Powers a Half-Hearted Jane Austen Update
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