![]() ![]() I'm stumped to think of a modern-day actress who could, but Vivien Leigh would have been perfect in a role like this. Beckinsale doesn't have that kind of allure she's technically proficient at hitting her marks, but she doesn't have the screen presence to carry this really rather despicable character off. But her character is in virtually every scene, and she's supposed to be so irresistible that she can manipulate anyone to do anything she wants. Kate Beckinsale is a lovely actress, and she does imperious and haughty well. Therefore, the film doubles the emotional distance between the audience and the characters, so we have a hard time caring much about what happens to any of them. The problem with that approach is that Austen was already a crack satirist herself. Stillman treats the film like a satire of Jane Austen, with all of the actors moving through the film practically winking at the camera to acknowledge they're playing dress up. ![]() Something is tonally off about "Love & Friendship," Whit Stillman's screen adaptation of a Jane Austen novella. ![]()
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