Boasting a beautifully calibrated tone, it’s wickedly droll and choicely acted by the entire ensemble.
Jane Austen adaptation is an unexpected delight.
Kate Beckinsale is a becoming widow without means in an adaptation that reinvigorates the breeches, buttons and bows cliches.
Add a dash of true romance, dialogue that cuts like a knife and a cast that includes Stephen Fry and Chloë Sevigny and you have a very civilised treat in store.
Kate Beckinsale is deliciously acerbic in Whit Stillman’s fifth film in 26 years – a mashup of two early Jane Austen stories.
Even among the iconic Austen adaptations that have graced the big and small screens down the years, this may well be the finest.
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General release. Check local listings for show times.
Edinburgh Filmhouse, Edinburgh from Monday June 27, 2016, until Thursday June 30, 2016. More info: www.filmhousecinema.com
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