![]() The potential for a frothy comedy of manners is evident despite the fact that our heroine is a selfish and conniving adulteress-in short, pretty darned despicable. But even Stillman recognized Lady Susan (the book) as “flawed,” and while the filmed version of his treatment, abbreviated to Love & Friendship to save marquee owners a headache, is impeccably appointed and grandly scored, Stillman’s trademark talky-ness falls mostly flat, with little of the wit or erudition of his earlier works (cf. The beloved British novelist never submitted Lady Susan for publication-it was issued posthumously some fifty years after her death-and perhaps there was good reason for that. Love & friendship : in which Jane Austen’s Lady Susan Vernon is entirely vindicated : concerning the beautiful Lady Susan Vernon, her cunning daughter & the strange antagonism of the DeCourcy family is the rather mouthy title of writer/director Whit Stillman’s novelization of an early Austen novella, Lady Susan.
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