Love & Friendship
It's the Whit Stillman movie that some of us have been waiting a long time for...howlingly funny.
Love & Friendship
Set in the opulent drawing rooms of eighteenth-century English society, Love & Friendship focuses on the machinations of a beautiful widow, Lady Susan Vernon (Kate Beckinsale), who, while waiting for social chatter about a personal indiscretion to pass, takes up temporary residence at her in-laws’ estate. While there, the intelligent, flirtatious, and amusingly egotistical Lady Vernon is determined to be a matchmaker for her daughter Frederica—and herself too, naturally. She enlists the assistance of her old friend Alicia (Chloë Sevigny), but two particularly handsome suitors (Xavier Samuel and Tom Bennett) complicate her orchestrations.
Adapting Jane Austen’s unpublished early novella Lady Susan, Whit Stillman returns to the Sundance Film Festival (where his Metropolitan premiered in 1990) in top form with his latest comedy of manners. Kate Beckinsale excels in her role as the deliciously devious Lady Vernon and delivers each line with relish. With exquisite period detail and a script teeming with bon mots and witty dialogue, Love & Friendship is a rare—and rarified—treat.
Adapting Jane Austen’s unpublished early novella Lady Susan, Whit Stillman returns to the Sundance Film Festival (where his Metropolitan premiered in 1990) in top form with his latest comedy of manners. Kate Beckinsale excels in her role as the deliciously devious Lady Vernon and delivers each line with relish. With exquisite period detail and a script teeming with bon mots and witty dialogue, Love & Friendship is a rare—and rarified—treat.
Genre
Drama,
Romance,
Comedy
Runtime
94
Language
English
Director
Whit Stillman
Cast
Kate Beckinsale,
Tom Bennett,
Xavier Samuel
FEATURED REVIEW
Farran Smith Nehme, New York Post
Whit Stillman’s debut film, “Metropolitan,” contained a spirited exchange about “Mansfield Park,” and indeed his sensibility always seemed ideal for Jane Austen. And so it has come to pass: Stillman’s latest film adapts an Austen novella called “Lady Susan,” and the result is the sharpest, least ...
Played at
Town Center 5 5.27.16 - 7.07.16
Monica Film Center 5.27.16 - 6.23.16
Playhouse 7 5.27.16 - 8.04.16
NoHo 7 5.27.16 - 6.16.16
Claremont 5 6.03.16 - 6.30.16
Lumiere Music Hall 7.29.16 - 8.04.16
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