![]() The woman's will must be thwarted, of course, for the sake of her spirited daughter. She seems a pale copy of the villainess of another epistolary novel that was widely-read at the time, Les Liaisons Dangereuse.Įarly in Love & Friendship you realize that Stillman doesn't hate Lady Susan nearly as much as Austen seems to. Her protagonist, Lady Susan Vernon, is an impoverished widow with designs on a married lord and a malign indifference to her own teenage daughter. It's an epistolary work, told via letters, and, as such, missing Austen's all-important voice as narrator. ![]() The title isn't even hers - it didn't have one. Austen wrote the book early in her career, before Pride and Prejudice. That's not quite as heretical as it sounds. ![]() The writer-director Whit Stillman's Love & Friendship is an improvement on its source, Jane Austen's novella Lady Susan. Ross McDonnell/Courtesy of Amazon Studios and Roadside Attractions Lady Susan (right, played by Kate Beckinsale) consults with her American friend (Chloë Sevigny) in Whit Stillman's Love & Friendship. ![]()
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