For those of you who at the time, when it was released (on February 14, 2020, it was one of the last major premieres before the pandemic) or for the many who have now seen it at home, ‘Emma’ will surely please you. has conquered and captured your attention in a way that most literary adaptations do not. The modern humor, art direction, music and performances were anything but traditional.
That said, it seems to have captivated both those who love Jane Austen’s work and those who remain unfamiliar with it. If you loved the beautiful sets and costumes, the witty humor and the romance of ‘Emma’, the film starring Anya Taylor-Joy, here are some movies you should watch next. All of them are on Netflix.
‘Pride and Prejudice’
Just a decade after the famous BBC series, it was decided to make a new adaptation of Austen’s best-known novel, now starring a Keira Knightley who was the best in her time and a Matthew Macfadyen who, let’s say it once and for all. all, made us miss Mr. Darcy-Colin Firth. The film offers a remarkable result; They say that part of the work of adapting the script was carried out by Emma Thompson, but a large part of the credit goes to the director, Joe Wright (‘Atonement’, ‘The Woman in the Window’), for whom this was also his first feature film. It’s leaving Netflix on July 14, so run!
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‘Effie Gray’
The script, the most interesting part of the film, is by Oscar winner Emma Thompson. The story of this period drama revolves around the young and beautiful Effie Gray (Dakota Fanning), married to the gentlemanly art critic John Ruskin (David Suchet). A classic and monotonous marriage that will be greatly altered when the handsome and promising painter John Everett Millais (Tom Sturridge) appears on the scene. Idolized by the husband for his magnificent and exquisite art, it will be the wife who is captivated by his charisma. Little by little something will be born that neither of them will be able to stop, and the existing chemistry and attraction will give rise to an extramarital affair.
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‘Sense and Sensibility’
Ang Lee (‘Brokeback Mountain’) directed a fabulous version of one of Jane Austen’s great works, ‘Sense and Sensibility’, with a great cast that included, among others, Emma Thompson – in charge of adapting the work and, therefore , received an Oscar–, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant or Greg Wise. It tells the story of the three Dashwood sisters and her mother, who when the head of the family dies lose their inheritance to the male child of her father’s first marriage. With a magnificent setting, fresh, fun and captivating, it is one of the best films inspired by Austen’s novels. Be careful, he’s leaving Netflix in less than a week.
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‘The Age of Innocence’
Directed by Martin Scorsese, the film adapts the book of the same name by Edith Wharton and stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer and Winona Ryder. Newland Archer (Day-Lewis) is an aristocratic lawyer engaged to May Welland (Ryder). However, Countess Ellen Olenska’s (Pfeiffer) return to New York after her failed marriage in Europe puts her relationship at risk, as Archer falls in love with her. Although it may seem otherwise, she also reciprocates. However, their relationship is impossible because, in addition to putting morality in check in American society at the end of the 19th century, Ellen Olenska is May’s cousin. Her incredible costumes won the golden statuette in 1994.
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