Monday, January 15, 2007
1811-2011
Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film was
The Jane Austen novels just tumble onto the screen these days. This is one of the early ones. We saw it when it was out. Very good indeed.
There is a resonance between her view of the world and the present day.
It is like Mozart.
There is something about the work of each of these great artists that speak to our time.
In Austen's case, I think it is the rebellion against class and convention.
All of her heroines swim upstream. All of the men for the heroines come to see human values rather than the material or power motivated ones.
The books and films are wonderful and sly plays of manners. The characters are vivid and multi-layered; complex.
Mansfield Park, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma and Persuasion.
All 5's out of Netflix5.
