It has Jane Austen’s benchmark. The eighteen-century beloved English writer continues reaching out modern audiences. It does so, as she addresses universal and timeless topics, and despite her books adaptations to the big screen since the 1930’s, or because of them.
Persuasion, one of her novels published posthumously in 1818, released in Canada in 2007 and directed by Adrian Shergold, might not be a superb adaptation. But it’s still good.
Britons Sally Hawkins (her characterization of a cheery and hilarious schoolteacher in 2008 Happy-Go-Lucky still spinning in my head) and good-looking Rupert Penry-Jones star a love story marked by the arrangements and conveniences of eighteen-century England society.
It must be said that when it comes to the core of the story, the sought-after persuasion, the movie doesn’t reveal enough of what…I guess Austen told in her novel.
Or it’s probably the confession by Frederick (Penry-Jones), the lines “What I desire all in a wife is firmness of character, a woman who knows her mind. I cannot abide timidity of feebleness of purpose, a weak spirit which is always open to persuasion first one way and then the other, can never be relied upon”, what will make the viewers of the movie go after the book.
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Short and clear. Nice
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