As Lady Susan, Beckinsale revisits the typically gilded ornamentation of her earliest genre films before the trip to Hollywood (such as Much Ado About Nothing and Cold Comfort Farm).
Indeed, by reteaming with his The Last Days of Disco leading lady a number of years later, Stillman and Beckinsale’s collaboration has gifted the actress with what might be a career best performance it’s definitely an endlessly entertaining one. Playing as if all the characters have seen their fair share of Sense & Sensibility films too, Whit Stillman’s devilishly self-aware costume drama is as dangerously beguiling as star Kate Beckinsale’s scandalous Lady Susan, a woman who can be called many things, but never proper.
Perhaps this is why Love & Friendship is so delightfully wicked. They can be prideful and they can be prejudiced, but they must above all else be able to do it with the proper amount of propriety. There is a certain etiquette and level of decorum that comes with Jane Austen adaptations.
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