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A more modern and lighter version of Jane Austen’s classic, the film traces the troubled love between Anne Elliot and naval officer Frederick Wentworth
Valentina Barzaghi
July 15, 2022 at 08:20
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It is available from 15th of July on Netflix “Persuasion”, The film based on one of the most famous novels of Jane Austenalready adapted by Roger Michell in the 1995 film starring Amanda Root and Ciarán Hinds and later in the television version directed by Adrian Shergold with Sally Hawkins and Rupert Penry-Jones. It tells the troubled romantic story between the noble Anne Elliott and the naval officer Frederick Wentworththis time interpreted by Dakota Johnson And Cosmo Jarvis.
Anne Elliott and Frederick Wentworth know each other and fall madly in love. She is noble and he is not: pushed by her family, therefore, they break up. They meet again eight years later, for a series of fortuitous events: Anne’s family is on the rails this time, while he has enriched himself by making a career in the Navy. They still love each other, but they don’t tell each other. While he, unaware that she has been waiting for him for so long, lets himself be courted by other young women, she lives their meeting with concern and decides that the time has come to turn the page. Will it really be like this?
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Misunderstandings, unspoken, old grudges and never extinguished feelings are at the center of this costume film, which takes the classic opera, giving it a light and narratively different look. Anne constantly talks to the public, looking into the room, to ironically tell what happens to her, as well as the defects and backstory of who is with her on stage – mostly her family – becoming at the same time the protagonist and narrator of the story. Anne is the center of the film adaptation of director Carrie Cracknell and Dakota Johnson is good at giving her a sensual, witty, but also funny profile.
“Persuasion” is a romantic and optimistic film, which will appeal mostly to lovers of the genre (perhaps less to those Jane Austen), suitable for a vision of pure relaxation.
