简·奥斯丁的遗憾 Miss Austen Regrets review by Americans

Miss Austen Regrets was screened by PBS in America earlier this year.

Here are a selection of American reviews of the film:

Hollywood Reporter

"Austen's life and the world she created in her writing provide ample opportunities for a fine cast that's dominated by Olivia Williams' performance as Jane. Knowing that she must sustain a relatively limited emotional journey for 90 minutes, Williams uses the richly expressive nuances of her fine, beautiful face and voice to great and moving effect."

"The other outstanding performance is 18-year-old Imogen Poots as Jane's impressionable young niece."

"Also to be noted are Hugh Bonneville as Jane's rejected suitor and confidant (a good part, the only man in the story who has much dimensionality to him) and Sylvie Herbert as Austen's wise French maid."

"It is easy for a critic to make fun of the cottage industry that Austen has become, but considering Hughes' polished treatment, Jennie Muskett's atmospheric music and director Jeremy Lovering's loving regard for his actors and the gorgeous English countryside, it will be hard for viewers, particularly Austen fans, to have many regrets at all."

San Francisco Chronicle

"'Miss Austen Regrets ripples with superb performances, glorious cinematography, thrilling direction and careful attention to authenticity in set and costumes. But what has inspired all of the above is the superb script by Gwyneth Hughes. Yes, she's able to take scraps from Austen's surviving correspondence with her sister, Cassandra, and niece, Fanny, and assemble a credible supposition of Austen's life. But the real glory of the writing is how Hughes delicately snips cuttings from Austen's fiction and grafts them carefully to the character of the author herself."

"Williams is superb in the title role. She perfectly embodies the complicated woman that Hughes has pieced together from Austen's letters and novels. Greta Scacchi is wonderful as Austen's sister, Cassandra... Strong performances are also delivered by Law as Jane's mother, Bonneville as Bridges and Imogen Poots as Fanny Knight."

"Jeremy Lovering directs with care, patience and loving attention to detail. There is virtually nothing to regret in this thought-provoking and heartfelt film."

USA Today

"In loving, thoughtful fashion, Miss Austen Regrets beautifully contrasts the rich, romantic life the author created in print with the life of unmarried, genteel poverty that was her real-world fate."

"Shaped by Gwyneth Hughes out of Austen's books and letters, and wonderfully brought to life by Olivia Williams, this is a woman whom you can imagine writing Pride and Prejudice."

"What emerges is a touching, often funny picture of a woman who made her choices and was determined to be happy with them."

Variety

"Beautifully shot and graced with a splendid performance by Olivia Williams."

"Williams' soulful and witty embodiment of Austen establishes the novelist as a compellingly independent woman for her day."

Los Angeles Times

"... it is excellent, due in no small part to a thoroughly imagined performance by Olivia Williams."

"... while screenwriter Gwyneth Hughes (the excellent kidnapping mini-series Five Days) has drawn some serious curlicues around the few available facts – and she has definitely done her homework – she has also managed to create plausible characters and crises."

"Williams... gives us a person capable of writing those novels, of imagining all the good and bad within them. This is a complicated Jane, mischievous, loving, sad."

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