Collection of six of the BBC's lavish Jane Austen adaptations. Includes PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, MANSFIELD PARK, EMMA and PERSUASION.
The popularity of the adaptations of Jane Austen's novels, nearly two hundred years after ... more
their original publication, is staggering. Much is attributed to her use of such universal themes as marriage, social pressure, and the generation gap; many love her strong, spirited and unpretentious heroines and her emphasis on reason, moderation, fidelity and consideration; but most of all it is her sparkling dialogue, razor-sharp wit, marvellous characters and ingeniously intricate plots that have made her a small screen success.All these are intrinsic in the BBC adaptations. Emma perfectly balances humour and romance; Persuasion has a great strong heroine; Sense and Sensibility features the duelling of spirited sisters; Mansfield Park can claim Austen's most outrageous supporting characters; Northanger Abbey marvellously satirizes gothic romances while the electric sensuality of Pride and Prejudice has, with the courtship of Elizabeth and Darcy, remained everyone's favourite love story.
Set Comprises: Pride And Prejudice: The arrival of the wealthy Mr. Darcy in the ... more
neighbourhood causes great excitement within the Bennet family. One of her five daughters Mrs Bennet feels is sure to capture the heart of the wealthy young aristocrat. That fate befalls the spirited Elizabeth. Judging him on first impressions and the malicious gossip of friends she rejects his advances. However as she busies herself with the stormy romances and scandal of her sisters she once again finds herself in his company. Gradually her opinions of this proud young man begin to change... Sense And Sensibility: Jane Austen's tale of two devoted sisters with totally differing attitudes to life and love. Filmed on location in the stately homes of picturesque Dorset and Somerset. Mansfield Park: True virtue triumphs over superficiality in this distinguished BBC production of Jane Austen's celebrated novel Mansfield Park.Set in 18th century England Jane Austen's tale of virtue and vice tells of young impoverished Fanny Price who arrives at the elegant country estate of her uncle Sir Thomas Bertam. Snubbed by everyone except her cousin Edmund Fanny begins her long struggle for acceptance by her shallow relatives who believe wealth automatically means quality. When Fanny finally wins the respect of her snobbish relatives she incurs the displeasure of her uncle by rejecting the handsome philanderer Henry Crawford because she has fallen in love with Edmund. Northanger Abbey: A tale of intrigue adventure and romance. This enchanting BBC dramatization captures the spirit and wit of Austen's classic novel Northanger Abbey. The setting is eighteenth-century Bath a society of decadence and deceit into which Catherine Morland arrives bursting with freshness integrity and a passion for macabre Gothic novels. In a time when materialism not love governs marriage Catherine's head is full of fantasy and fiction of maidens being abducted to sinister castles and heroes riding to the rescue on white horses. When romantic Henry Tilney invites her to his ancestral home Northanger Abbey a dark mystery starts to unfold that makes her blood run cold. Are her fantasies coming true? What does the brooding General Tilney want from her and will the truth destroy her chance for love...? Emma: This splendid BBC dramatization brings to life all the glorious wit and sharp humour of Jane Austen's - arguably her finest - novel Emma recreating her most irritatingly endearing female character of whom she wrote "no one but myself could like." Emma presides over the small provincial world of Highbury with enthusiasm but she will find that it is all too easy to confuse good intensions with self-gratification. the often insensitive ever well-meaning incorrigible Emma Woodhouse having engineered the marriage of governess companion and friend to Miss Taylor now turns her attention towards making a match for Mr. Elton the local vicar and her new prot'ƒ‰g'ƒ‰e Harriet Smith. Her one voice of reason and restraint is Mr. Knightley who has known her since she was a child and who watches her behaviour with wry amusement and sometimes anger. Persuasion: "At nineteen to involve yourself with a man who had nothing but himself to recommend him! Spirit and brilliance to be sure but no fortune and no connections! It was entirely prudent of you to reject him." Anne has spent over seven years regretting being persuaded to reject the young Captain Wentwort.
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Production Year: 1995 - Drama - Director: Pat O'Connor - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over, 15 years and over - Starring: Geraldine O'Rawe, Colin Firth, Saffron Burrows, Minnie Driver, Chris O'Donnell
Production Year: 2004 - Drama - Director: Nick Cassavetes - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, 12 years and over - Starring: Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands
Advantages: It's a reasonable chick flick. Disadvantages: It's very predictable.
When Sylvia's husband leaves her for another woman her friends rally round and start a book club to take her mind off her troubles. None of them are lucky in love. Jocelyn has decided she doesn't need love and fills the void with breeding dogs. Prudie is a high school French teacher ignored by her husband and tempted to have an affair with a student. Bernadette has been through several marriages and has decided she's entitled to be eccentric. Sylvia's lesbian daughter Allegra is having problems with her lover and Grigg, the only male member of the group is pining after one of the women but is unable to articulate his love. As the book club reads through the work of JaneAusten, they find themselves drawing ever closer parallels between their lives and the stories.
Writer-director Robin Swicord knows her audience. She sticks to tried ...
teacher who is battling an attraction to one of her students while her marriage slowly falls apart, and Grigg, a science fiction enthusiast who is attracted to Jocelyn and accepts to join the club in order to get to know her better. Unfortunately for Grigg, Jocelyn recruited him into the club in an attempt to hook him up with Sylvia, who, incidentally, is still in love with her ex-husband.
Deciding that the club will be concentrating their efforts on JaneAusten's classic novels, the group meet up once a month in order to discuss one of the novels. During these discussions, the comments of the members begin to reveal their true natures, and friendships solidify and spill out into the 'real' world - a world devoid of JaneAusten.
In between the book club meetings, life goes on as usual with Sylvia's ex husband constantly popping in to ...
Advantages: Excellent entertainment Disadvantages: Some of the productions are better than others
JaneAusten needs little or no introduction to both modern readers and viewers. She was one of the pioneers of the modern novel and her work continues to be read widely - not just for its historic value but for its entertainment too! Whilst some consider it to be "women's literature" this is simply because her heroines are young women. Frankly it is a gender-inspired argument as ridiculous as to say that Shakespeare is for men. Her novels are carefully crafted and exquisitely written snapshots of her era and if her social concerns are not as wide-ranging as, say, Charles Dickens' the wickedness of her wit is sharper through being muted.
Since she unfortunately died at the early age of forty-one it is possible to present all Austen's mature works within one collection. This dvd set contains adaptations of all her adult novels and as ...
Collection of six of the BBC's lavish Jane Austen adaptations. Includes PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, MANSFIELD PARK, EMMA and PERSUASION.
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