There are two groups of viewers who profess to hate this movie, and I have some sympathy for one of those groups. The Jane Austen purists are furious about it (“furious purists” - say that three times quickly). The story has been updated — sort of. That is, we find modern language and expressions popping up here and there, but clearly it still takes place in the past. It possesses a modern sensibility but still resides in the past.

There is more wit and humor in this version, and I am fine with that. And having Anne talk directly to the camera is something different for an Austen adaptatio... lire la suite.