The arrival of the third season of ‘The Bridgertons’ has once again filled the Netflix series catalog with acolytes of the cup cinema, fans of the most pompous high birth and experts in impossible hairstyles and open secrets shared on busy street corners.
For all of them, there is nothing like traveling to the origin of all this, to the touchstone on which the legend was forged thanks to a writer who has gone down in history and a collection of titles that we review in when commenting on the 21 best adaptations of Jane Austen.
“The best adaptations of the English author’s novels demonstrate his sharp sense of humor, his veiled criticism of the society of his time and his good taste for irresistibly romantic encounters“, noted Mireia Mullor in this collection of titles that includes “from the great gems that the BBC catalog has left us (the British channel has a long tradition of adapting Austen’s works, with some iconic and reference titles that are date back to the 80s) to the most current films that screened in cinemas, such as ‘Emma’ with Anya Taylor-Joy, through the Austenian boom from the mid-90s.”
With ‘Pride and Prejudice’, the BBC miniseries directed by Simon Langton in 1995 at the helm (the one that turned Colin Firth into the Mr. Darcy of an entire generation), the collection of balls in grand halls, more or less sincere declarations of love, intense glances, love affairs and advantageous marriages continues with ‘Sense and Sensibility’ (1995), the first film shot in English by Taiwanese Ang Lee, a gem that leaves the Netflix film catalogue next Sunday June 30th and which received 7 Oscar nominations, revealed Kate Winslet as an excellent performer who made Emma Thompson wins her second Academy Award (the first for an adapted screenplay).
“This film had everything to succeed: Austen’s beautiful novel, Ang Lee’s sensitivity and taste for romanticism, a cast full of fabulous actors and actresses (Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant, Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman…) and above all an admirable ability to breathe life and comedy into the story,” explains Mullor. “William Shakespeare’s verses echo in the rain in one of his most iconic scenes and Hugh Laurie is the comic relief austenian perfect. ‘Sense and Sensibility’, with which Emma Thompson herself won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, is a delight. Without a doubt, one of Kate Winslet’s best films that is leaving the Netflix catalog in just over 48 hours.
Ricardo Rosado is a film critic, cultural journalist, expert in North American comedy, horror films of any kind and everything that happens between genres and formats. Raised on Steven Spielberg films, and spoiled since he encountered David Lynch, he has been writing for a decade about the art he consumes.
In FOTOGRAMAS you will read him commenting on the latest theatrical releases, promoting peace between Marvel and DC fans, reviewing all the Star Wars news or diving into the depths of the Netflix, HBO Max, Prime Video and Filmin catalogues. He also likes to make galleries and rankings of movies and series, but no one trusts his judgment too much.
After studying Audiovisual Communication at the Complutense University of Madrid, he created a film review blog with the hope of attending film festivals and press screenings for free. Now, after seven years writing in FOTOGRAMAS about the latest theatrical releases, current series and any content available on the different streaming channels, she still thinks it was worth it.
Frontman of two embarrassing musical projects, director of various video clips by heavy metal bands from Madrid and author of many short films hidden in the Internet, he is the editor and one of the proud members of the cultural podcast ‘Los de al lado de Pumares’ , a space that has allowed him to participate as a collaborator in other radio formats such as ‘Vamos de cine’ (Castilla-La Mancha Media) and ‘El Faro’ (Cadena SER), in addition to having made him one of the main voices of the videos of FRAMES.
