Our Classics Revisited series continues as Janet Mullany joins the ladies for a wide-ranging discussion of the 2009 BBC adaptation of Emmastarring Romola Garai and Jonny Lee Miller.
As you ease yourself from your own groaning board this holiday, consider how food on the big or small screen adds to your enjoyment of an Austen adaptation or other historical drama.
It was time for a new Persuasion, but this isn’t it. The diverse casting is great, and there’s some good acting, but this film manages to try too hard at everything except what Jane Austen’s novel is about.
The 1999 film adaptation of Mansfield Park doesn’t quite work, but then, for many of us, neither does the book. Why is thisJane Austen novel so problematic for us?
