Ya'll know I love a good Jane Austen adaptation. So when I spotted a trailer for a new, previously unadapted novella by Austen, you know I had to see it. Love & Friendship is the film adaptation of the novella Lady Susan written by Jane Austen around 1794; however, it was not published for nearly seven decades. Kate Beckinsale, perhaps the best known actor in the film (at least to American audiences), plays Lady Susan Vernon. Love & Friendship has a fast-paced plot and quick, smart dialogue. At times because everything and everyone, it seems, is moving so quickly it can be hard to follow just what machinations are going on or how events are transpiring. And the characters' connections serve up some confusion right off the top of the movie, but more on that later. Lady Susan Vernon is a conniving, manipulative widow whose social reputation is in tatters at the outset of the film due to a romantic liaison with the (married) master of Langhor...
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