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1 hr 34 min Jun 3rd, 2016 Romance ,
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Set in 1790s London, LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP centers on the recently widowed Lady Susan Vernon (Kate Beckinsale), who seeks refuge with her in-laws to escape the scandalous rumors surrounding her private life. While at their estate the scheming Lady Susan decides it’s time to secure a husband for herself and for her somewhat reluctant and awkward daughter.
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Supporting actors Emma Greenwell , Justin Edwards , Tom Bennett , Morfydd Clark , Jemma Redgrave , more… James Fleet , Jenn Murray , Stephen Fry Producers Katie Holly , Lauranne Bourrachot , Whit Stillman Studio Amazon Studios Rating PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Purchase rights Stream instantly Details Format Prime Video (streaming online video) Devices Available to watch on supported devices
Andy Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2017
This is a movie I watched on Prime, so I didn't need to purchase it. Love & Friendship is, as captioned, based on the Novella “Lady Susan” by Jane Austen. I actually think that they could have just titled it “Lady Susan” and lost the “based on” bit, because other then the title, most of the plot and dialogue from the original piece was represented more faithfully here then in many films I've seen based on written works. This was hard for me to rate, because I had to try and separate my feelings about “Lady Susan” as a work from the movie. It has long been my least favorite of Austen's writings, because Lady Susan herself is a cold-hearted, manipulative, self-obsessed, deceitful, treacherous kind of character, and much of the work is written from her perspective. And those are traits I don't generally identify well with, though I really don't want to be judgmental per se. Lady Susan is recently widowed, and much of the plot points revolve around the extent to which she goes to disguise her adulteries while ensnaring the hearts of other men with the end goal of another marriage either for sport or financial gain. A side note is her effort to marry off her daughter, who she has grossly neglected, to a man who is wealthy but generally thought to be quite foolish. In the end, Lady Susan ends up marrying the man she had tried to secure for her daughter because her own treacheries are exposed and she looses the respectable match she was trying to secure for herself. As a book, it is written mostly in the form of letters passing back and forth between characters, with a somewhat hastily thrown in conclusion that abandons the letter format and ties up the loose ends. Austen almost seeks to present the hypocrisies of the social order in which she lives in such a way that it seeks to speak like testimony from a trial, without the incisively charming wit the narration of her other pieces provides. So while I was curious about this film, I was already predisposed not to like it much as a story. I felt like this movie did a great job of navigating the difficulties of putting events described in letters into acted scenes, and much of the dialogue is the same. So high marks there. I thought what few of the plot points they did add in and change didn't really seem necessary. I mean, Lady Susan comes off plenty unlikable without making up the bit of her lover moving in with her and her new husband, and her announcing to her new husband the day after their marriage that she was expecting, with the doctor quickly confirming. It did take at least 2 months, often longer, before a pregnancy could be confirmed back then, so the allusion being that she had married because she got knocked up. No mention of any of that is made in the story. It also paints Lady Susan as being satisfied with the marriage of her daughter to the man she herself had failed to obtain because she felt it had shown manipulation on the part of the daughter. In the book, it is certainly not painted in these lights. Her daughter is written as a sweet-natured character entirely lacking in her mother's flaws. And the introduction of a maid servant that wasn't in the book that she passed off as a friend that some of the dialogue was conveyed through seemed like an unnecessary change to me as well. I also thought the way they chose to provide freeze-frame images of the characters in an almost comedic light to introduce them was in complete dissonance with the tone of the plot and the piece itself. For those things I am taking off a star. I'm giving it such high marks because it does such a good job of over-all following the original work. If I were basing this on enjoying the story, my rating would be lower, but I really love it when a movie overall recreates the original work well. And I thought Kate Beckinsale really did a great job portraying Lady Susan in all her callous glory. Not that I think that's glorious, but she really made it believable.
johnf Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2017
Love and Friendship has a very large gulf between the appraisal of the critics and that of the public. It's not the usual one either, since the public in this case is made up of people inclined to go to Jane Austen adaptations and not the public at large. The critics loved it for its wit, dialogue, acting and production values and most of the public who saw it did not care for it. Just look at the current three-star average here at Amazon, where one would more expect a four or better. There are many possible reasons for this, some from the source material and others from the expectations of the audience, in addition to outside factors. The outside factors include the many fine Austen adaptations by filmmakers and the BBC, which have brought us all of The Six novels in handsome, lively and well-acted productions. The audience can't help but compare, and the story here isn't nearly as long and intricate as the audience expects, given what they've seen before. But the source material here is very different. This was an early (late 1790's) unpublished novella. In addition it was written in the form of various letters about the situation but never in the present with the characters themselves. Though the film is, of course, filmed in the traditional way it develops through its dialogue, which is long and verbose and never quite loses the sense of being explained rather than lived. The fact that Jane Austen seems to have given up on it rather quickly and gave it a quick ending (the opposite of the ending of the film) doesn't help either. Then there's Lady Susan herself. Many are drawn to Jane Austen because of her strong central characters, all of whom are admirable (though Fanny Price offers a bit of difficulty, but she's more dully virtuous than bad in any way). Who doesn't love the strong-willed Elizabeth Bennett, the flawed but sweetly clueless Emma Woodhouse, the practical Elinor Dashwood, or the naive Catherine Morland? But Lady Susan is wicked, scheming, selfish, cruel, in all ways an absolute monster. Where most of Austen's heroines seem to be extensions of herself, Lady Susan could only have been someone she had heard about or a composite of several. I think critics, rather than the general Austen audience would tend to like such a character just because she's interesting in a Joan Collins kind of way, where the audience tends to reject her. She's certainly not someone you are rooting for, which is the usual case in Austen novels. We are left with one well-known Austen insight that almost makes one forgive Lady Susan. Throughout all of Austen's novels lies the fragile and perilous circumstances that made people within this society's boundaries, especially women, insecure. Marry well or end up at best a poor relation dependent on the kindness of family members, at worst, a bottomless pit awaited. Lady Susan was almost penniless and doing what she could to survive, though it is hinted that her own extravagance caused her poverty. There are other problems in the film because of the set up and the source material. Though every character is well-acted by a superb cast, outside the comically idiotic Sir James Martin no one is given much to do except act like proper people, which leaves Lady Susan as the only interesting character around. The only other bad-fellow, Lord Manwaring, is silent throughout. This leaves a lot for Kate Beckinsdale to carry, but she does it beautifully but it's not enough to make this a great film. The music is oddly totally Baroque even though it's the 1790's and Hummel and Cherubini are mentioned. I had the same problem with the sound as many. The talking was so fast and the script so verbose that I couldn't make much of it in the theater. I saw it a second time here with the closed captioning on and it made a lot more sense. Technically it's well-mounted with the typical Austen setting of great houses and pastoral scenery with a few scenes in London.
E. A. Solinas Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2017
You don't often see a new Jane Austen movie in theaters. Well, obviously "new" is relative -- Austen has been dead since the early 19th century, so she's unlikely to give us any new stories. But since Austen only authored a handful of adaptable works in her lifetime, most of the books have been repeatedly adapted into movies and miniseries. So it's rather refreshing that "Love and Friendship" is the first movie adaptation of Jane Austen's epistolary novella "Lady Susan" -- a fluffy and sometimes confusing tale about a delightfully amoral widow on the prowl for men with money. Lady Susan (Kate Beckinsale) is a recent widow with limited finances and no permanent home, visiting friends and relations to keep herself afloat while she searches for rich husbands for herself and her daughter Frederica (Morfydd Clark). Unfortunately her recent flirtation with a married man has forced her to depart in haste, and instead stay in the countryside with her in-laws -- where she immediately entrances her sister-in-law's brother, Reginald DeCourcy (Xavier Samuel). And after her daughter is expelled from her boarding school, Lady Susan thinks she's found a perfect match for her: the amiable but stupendously dumb Sir James Martin (Tom Bennett). But her attempts to coax her daughter into a wealthy match are thrown to the wayside when she becomes the center of a massive scandal in London. Only Lady Susan's cleverness can come up with a way of restoring her fortunes! The original novella was a piece of juvenilia that Austen never even tried to publish, and which wasn't released until several decades after her death. So unsurprisingly "Love & Friendship" is not as deep or incisive a story as Austen's other period tales, but it is an amusingly sharp-edged, fluffy little tale -- less about social insights and more about a particular woman whom we really shouldn't like as much as we do. And Kate Beckinsale does a pretty serviceable job -- she isn't quite as dynamic and dazzling as the role seems to imply, but she does a pretty good job as a beautiful, smart woman who unselfconsciously prattles off spectacularly cold-hearted lines like "What a mistake you made marrying Mr. Johnson. Too old to be governable, too young to die." She also has some good chemistry with Chloe Sevigny as an American lady who married a stuffy gentleman, played by Stephen Fry. As for the other actors, they tend to veer between solid low-key performances (Clark, James Fleet) and some fairly out-and-out goofiness (the endearingly doofy performance by Bennett, Jenn Murray as a hysterically whiny wife who is out for Susan's blood). The biggest problem with the movie is that it's a bit hard to follow all the melodrama and tangled webs around Lady Susan, and the resolution to all this comes rather abruptly. Also, director Whit Stillman has the awkward tendency to introduce characters with Quentin Tarantino-style title cards. But the journey is a pleasant one, full of lush country manors, pretty dresses, and some fairly clever comic-relief (Susan desperately trying to educate her dim daughter on the Ten Commandments with a curt "It's not a shalt not!"). "Love & Friendship" won't usurp the place of Austen mainstays like "Pride and Prejudice" or "Emma," but it's a pleasantly fluffy diversion. If other Austen movies are a good meal, this is a scoop of ice cream.
Amazon Customer Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2016
I was delighted to find this finally arrived for Prime viewing. I have always thought Lady Susan one of Jane Austen's most overlooked stories, and definitely her unique and sardonic deviation from her patent novel pattern. Kate Beckinsale was an excellent Lady Susan. But I was nevertheless strongly disappointed: this rendering of the novel as a whole lacked development, depth, and above all, the wit which should characterize any story with the remotest nod to Jane Austen's genius. After all, we have a line of wicked libertines, dashing liars, and selfish fiends in masculine form to villain-ize her other novels, but here alone, beside Wickham and Willoughby, do we have their truly fiendish female counterpart. Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey have their female connivers, more or less equal to Frank Churchill, but nowhere else do we enjoy a skilled feminine master hand at cunning like Lady Susan. I would have been less disappointed if I could have turned it off and walked away, but the sparkle of some of Beckinsale's one-liners kept me hoping. However it went from mediocre to awful by the end. Decidedly a weak interpretation. A better screenplay would certainly have been key. The casting was not really to be faulted; I was reeling from the idea of Stephen Fry appearing in ANYTHING in which he had no humorous lines, and nothing to do. Ugh. Who's brain storm was that??? Almost all the characters have appeared successfully in period drama that I recognize myself, and many in renditions of other Jane Austen stories. But it would have been difficult to do much with a very wooden screenplay... I don't know the guy who played Reggie, my fault probably, but he failed to impress. One is left utterly in the dark about WHY Lady Susan makes it such a point to take him down a notch. He was insipid; everyone declared him brilliant onscreen while he appeared in actuality sappy and vacant. Why would a catch like that add any honor to Lady Susan's sultry career? They probably cast him for his face. We can't all be Colin Firth, though... gorgeous in breeches AND intelligent. Poor Reggie came off like week old leftovers with big lips. Of course it could be he just wasn't to my taste, but I rather am inclined to think that Jane Austen herself would agree with me--I learned my taste for intelligent men from her. Unless they can be ridiculous, like the wonderful Sir James!!! Sir James alone measured up to Kate Beckinsale's Lady Susan, and likewise to Jane Austen. Of course he had a lot to work with, given his character and lines; but he alone was able to make me laugh out loud and feel he was truly quotable. Poor Frederica!! her character never got a chance to shine. No one ever knows why her attitude toward her mother changes, or a lot of anything else about her. I rather think I liked her better when Sir James was still on board. This movie was too short for adequate development and yet much, much too long for the little actual content that was attempted. I so wish someone truly capable had been inspired to tackle a screenplay for one of my (oddly enough) favorite Jane Austen stories. Watching movies lately has made me feel sarcastically that, if everything good can be fit in a trailer or film clip, than for goodness sake, make a trailer and spare us the rest of your poorly written film. Do computers write screenplays now?? I keep wondering. Maybe producers should start making ten minute "shorts". Or five minute shorts. Almost every movie I have seen that was made in the past two or three years, with rare exception, could be edited down to a minute-and-a-half trailer that contained ALL the necessary and halfway decent dialogue and the entire plot, which, seen before viewing could have spared one watching any of the rest. Besides which the technical aspect of exceptionally poor streaming quality made this a complete letdown. And now I don't suppose anyone competent will touch the story for decades... I have been waiting for about half my life for a movie-version of Lady Susan!! But Love and Friendship leaves me still looking for a true rendition, while returning to read the book yet again... no one ever "finishes" a Jane Austen novel. I wish the same could be said about the movie.
merima Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2022
... despite it not having been a known diagnosis at the time. Very, very impressive especially considering her age when she wrote Lady Susan. What a shame she died so young. This was a little difficult to start watching (a number of character, combined with the language that only in words resembles todays, but has a very different way of expression), but turned into a comical and delightful—possibly the only—story about pure form of narcissistic personality disorder in full bloom a
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