Sense and Sensibility

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J H @JHmovielover 3d This is a movie I can come back to and rewatch again and again. For me, it is the ultimate feel-good comfort movie (and one of the very few movies wherein the late great Alan Rickman plays a character who gets a happy ending). But to simply call Sense and Sensibility a feel-good flic would be doing a great disservice to the cast, director, and source material. Ang Lee captures the idyllic countryside essence of an Austen novel without making the film seem overly pretentious or cloying. Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, and Alan Rickman deliver at times heart-wrenching performances. Hugh Grant, Hugh Laurie, Robert Hardy, Imelda Staunton, and Elizabeth Spriggs are the perfect supporting cast to bring Austen's wit to life. And one cannot help but feel Emma Thompson's love for the novel in every frame of her masterful adaptation. See more VITALII H @freakynickison Nov 22 I literally thought at the beginning that I’m not gonna like this… Suddenly I was so locked it that I couldn’t put to the side my laptop for a second. The cast is simply iconic! This movie is about three sisters and their mom and how they were forced to move from their father’s house after not being included in his will after his passing. Action takes place in the England during late 18th-century. We get a glimpse of what was allowed and what was strictly forbidden when it comes to relationships, marriage and how things were back then. I really liked the execution, the dialogues, scripts, acting … I absolutely recommend this movie. See more thiago s @Thiagostone Sep 19 Filme mais ou menos, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas são mais ou menos, a história é fraca, o elenco é fraco, e ninguém ajuda a melhorar o filme, os personagens são fracos, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores e relevantes, para fazer o filme ser bom See more YIYI X Aug 23 I heard about this film for a long time, with many famous English actors and a talented Chinese director. I was surprised that Marianne has the same name as a female scientist, Mary Ann. The complicated relationship between the young reminded me of the plots of Chinese drama. Money and love are comparable in personal life, from the perspective of a stable future. And the survival need seems to take the more important place. I thought that Mrs. Steele spoke lies about the private engagement with Edward, but it seems the truth. The rational comes before the emotion for the elder sister, while the emotion is expressed bravely for Marianne. She is too ideal and it is such lively that attracted to the Colonel. And it seems that she wants to die to prove the purity and fierceness of her love. So great actress Emma is. There is no need to punish ourselves for expressing our loyalty. The pain is only felt by the person who truly loves us. I really thought Mara would die when Elinor held her hand and said, ‘Don’t leave me alone’. Luckily, she survived. The happy ending for Miss Dashwoods are married to nice people. See more Jayden H. @pinkbunny Aug 20 The yearning, the self control, by far one of my favorite movies ! See more Charles P Aug 13 Set in early nineteenth century England, Mrs. Dashwood (Gemma Jones) and her three daughters, Elinor (Emma Thompson), Marianne (Kate Winslet) and Margaret (Emilie François), find themselves at the risk of poverty after the death of the former’s husband, Henry (Tom Wilkinson). While staying at Norland Park, the house that has been passed down to Henry’s son from his first marriage, John (James Fleet), Elinor strikes up a close friendship with John’s wife’s brother, Edward Ferrars (Hugh Grant). However, circumstances revolving around moving to a new estate, helping out Marianne with her own love problems with Col. Brandon (Alan Rickman) and John Willoughby (Greg Wise), and numerous misunderstandings, will force Elinor to deal with her feelings as she tries to understand what love means… Regarded as the crown jewel of all Jane Austen adaptations, along with the 1990s Pride & Prejudice television series, Ang Lee’s 1995 version of Austen’s first novel, Sense and Sensibility, manages to be not only incredibly well made for the period drama subgenre, that had only been thriving on TV at that point in time, but also manages to be very entertaining as well. While some characters and events from the book are removed for pacing reasons, Lee and writer and star Emma Thompson, make the incredibly smart decision to further flesh out the characters, especially the two main sisters and their love interests, with the quartet of Thompson, a pre-Titanic Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant and a surprisingly sweet Alan Rickman, all giving fantastic performances. Another great change is Elinor being aged up to her early thirties, which gives her character a lot more depth, especially when having to look after her family and deal with long-delayed love. Overall, with fantastic production design and Patrick Doyle music, a hugely entertaining cast of British supporting characters, such as the late Robert Hardy, Imelda Staunton, Elizabeth Spriggs and the always hilarious Hugh Laurie, and a much needed update on Austen’s themes, the 1995 adaptation of Sense and Sensibility is a high point in period drama cinema, which the likes of the 2005 adaptation of Pride & Prejudice and Downton Abbey, owe a lot to. See more Read all reviews

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