Love & Friendship
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Love & Friendship |
| Original title | Love & Friendship |
| Country of production | Ireland , France , Netherlands |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 0 JMK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Whit Stillman |
| script | Whit Stillman |
| production |
Lauranne Bourrachot Katie Holly Whit Stillman |
| music | Benjamin Esdraffo |
| camera | Richard van Oosterhout |
| cut | Sophie Corra |
| occupation | |
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Love & Friendship is a 2016 comedy film directed by Whit Stillman and starring Kate Beckinsale . The script is based on the letter novel Lady Susan by Jane Austen (around 1794).
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The widowed Lady Susan Vernon leaves the Manwarings headquarters, where rumors of their alleged affairs are circulating, to retreat to the Churchill estate, where her brother-in-law Charles Vernon lives with his wife Catherine. Catherine's brother, young handsome Reginald DeCourcy, is also there. Although he is skeptical about her at first, they soon spend a lot of time talking lively. Susan is out to marry him, and Reginald is falling for her - to the chagrin of his parents. Even his own father, who came specially, cannot do anything. One day, Susan's daughter Frederica appears, who has been kicked out of school. You follow Sir James Martin, who is very stupid but also very rich, and whom Frederica is to marry at Susan's behest. Frederica, however, does not like Sir James and avoids his company. Her mother tries to force her to obey by pointing out the Christian commandment “You should honor your father and mother”, so that Frederica confides in Reginald in her distress. When he tries to use his influence on Susan, he apparently falls out of favor with her.
Eventually Susan travels to London, where she meets her lover Lord Manwaring. Frederica receives a vocal training, but Lady Susan is not angry with the Vernons when they bring Frederica back to Churchill. Manwaring's wife, Lucy, arrives at her former guardian, Mr. Johnson, to complain about her husband's adultery. When Susan's belated letter arrives to her friend Alicia Johnson asking her to distract Reginald while Susan meets Lord Manwaring, Lucy snatches and opens the letter, and Reginald, who is still hoping to get married with, arrives Susan does, realizes her double game.
Finally, Alicia advises Susan, who is now completely destitute, to marry the wealthy James Martin herself. Sir James is also happy because he does not notice that Lord Manwaring, who lives with them after the separation from his wife, has remained Susan's lover. Frederica and Reginald DeCourcy fell in love on Churchill and are also getting married.
Reviews
Christoph Petersen from Filmstarts considers the film to be the best Jane Austen film adaptation to date. He was "incredibly funny" with an "extremely dry, revealing biting and refreshingly vicious" humor. Kate Beckinsale transforms the templates of her male partners with an "outrageously cheeky matter of course" and in between lets the human core of the protagonist shimmer through.
Patrick Bahners from the FAZ also saw the most beautiful of all Austen films. He thinks "the contrast between form and content of Lady Susan's simulation games, between the cold-blooded calculation of one's own intentions and the unworldly misjudgment of the intentions of all other actors" is hilarious, the "source of ninety minutes of never-ending pleasure".
In the cinema review, however, it is emphasized that the plot consists almost exclusively of dialogues in which the actual event is discussed. That is "very amusing", but does not come close to the "narrative sophistication or luxuriant elegance" of other Austen films.
Awards
- Nominations for Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2016 (December) : Best Actress in a Comedy (Kate Beckinsale), Best Costumes (Bucket Ní Mhaoldomhnaigh)
- Nomination Satellite Awards 2016 : Best Costume Design (Bucket Ní Mhaoldomhnaigh)
- The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable .
Web links
- Love & Friendship in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Website of the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Love & Friendship . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Age rating for Love & Friendship . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Christoph Petersen: Review on Filmstarts.de .
- ↑ Patrick Bahners: The most flirtatious woman in England FAZ.net, December 29, 2016.
- ↑ Criticism on Cinema.de .