Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Agathe harbors the romantic notion that she is living in the wrong century and struggles to finish a book inspired by a fantasy.

Driving through the countryside, aspiring author Agathe (Camille Rutherford) and grumpy literature professor Oliver (Charlie Anson) argue about Jane Austen. He might be driving Agathe to a Jane Austen ...

French writer Laura Piani tells IndieWire how she used her directorial debut as a modern way into Austen's smart brand of romantic comedy. Many film fans are starved for romantic stories right now, so ...

Jane Austen has touched multiple generations of women; that's an undeniable fact. From searching for their ideal Mr. Darcy to avoiding the Wickhams and Mr. Collinses of the world, her stories have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. JANE AUSTEN WRECKED MY LIFE, (aka JANE AUSTEN A GACHE MA VIE), Camille Rutherford, 2024 Written and directed by Laura Piani, Jane ...

Laura Piani's fresh rom-com about a love-challenged French writer is more "Persuasion" than "Emma," but still finds its own pains and pleasures with ease. Agathe Robinson is beset by two classic ...

If you’re somebody who dabbles in the creative side of things, you’re often inspired by the greats who came before you. Sometimes you may be such a huge fan of somebody’s work that they inspire your ...

Naming your romantic comedy Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (now streaming on Netflix) inevitably saddles it with certain expectations. The big obvious one is the invocation of the Mighty Austen, whose ...

In an early scene in Kate Evans’ Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen, she depicts 3-month-old, bundled-up baby Jane being smuggled out through the back door of her family’s large home. The ...

With "Jane Austen Wrecked My Life," writer-director Laura Piani delivers a rom-com tailor-made for Austen devotees that centers on a modern-day echo of "Persuasion"’s Anne Elliot, a woman named Agathe ...