5/10/2023 0 Comments Whit stillman love and friendshipThat's enough plot, though there are many more entanglements. "How delightful it will be to humble the pride of these pompous DeCourcys," Beckinsale purrs at one point. Darcy after too much laughing gas, will do the job. Perhaps this ninny, who prattles on about "the 12 Commandments" and comports himself like Colin Firth's Mr. Might Reginald be tempted by Frederica? In order to derail such a threat to her own plans, Lady Susan engineers the arrival of a second, eligible gentleman of means to the Churchill country estate: Sir James Martin (Tom Bennett), a fop of the first order. Lady Susan has a daughter, Frederica (Morfydd Clark), recently escaped from a distant boarding school for which her mother hasn't paid the bills. Johnson (Chloe Sevigny, somewhat overmatched by the material). Crashing at the country house of her in-laws, the sly opportunist Lady Susan sets her sights initially on her eligible brother-in-law, the younger, diffident, dashing Reginald DeCourcy (Xavier Samuel).īut there are other concerns, all of which Lady Susan confides to her friend and ally Mrs. Recently widowed and penniless, Lady Susan is played by Kate Beckinsale, with fabulously assured technique. Written in the 1790s as a novella of letters (or "epistolary intercourse," as Austen phrased it in her story's conclusion), "Lady Susan" owes as much to "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" from a few years earlier as it does to the Austen favorites of the early 19th century.
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