With Corin Redgrave as Anne’s monstrous father, and Fiona Shaw as the worldly wife of an admiral. Anyone expecting verbal Ping-Pong and unspotted elegance will be disappointed: Anne’s dress gets caught in the mud, and her sister Mary (a fine turn from Sophie Thompson) talks through a mouthful of pie. With Amanda Root, Ciarán Hinds, Susan Fleetwood, Corin Redgrave. In Stiff Competition with Persuasion (1995) There have been other screen adaptations of Austen’s classic love story, notably Persuasion (1995) a feature film starring Amanda Root as Anne Elliot and Ciarán Hinds as Captain Frederick Wentworth. But Michell somehow tenses a simple narrative into suspense the camera catches every glance between the former lovers and probes every scene for signs of hope. Jane Austens Persuasion: Directed by Roger Michell. The screenplay was by Nick Dear with Roger Michell directing and starred newcomer Amanda Root as Anne Elliot.

Persuasion, however, was a low-budget BBC endeavor adapting Austen's 1817. It was a big year for Austen, with Andrew Davies ' Pride and Prejudice and Emma Thompson 's Sense and Sensibility. They come together again-in the country, by the sea, and on the streets of Bath-and you can guess the outcome. Persuasion is a BBC Screen Two 1995 period drama film directed by Roger Michell and based on Jane Austens 1817 novel Persuasion. If Persuasion has been described (not altogether accurately) as a 'Cinderella' story, the 1995 film adaptation is the Cinderella of Jane Austen adaptations.

Amanda Root plays Anne Elliot, who once turned down Frederick Wentworth (Ciarán Hinds, who has the profile of a Regency miniature) and has regretted it ever since. He made a Jane Austen movie that is never pretty and only occasionally charming instead, it is troubled, astringent, and touched with melancholy-not unlike the novel. The young British director Roger Michell did, in this 1995 film, what always seemed impossible.

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