
Set in the 1790s, Love and Friendship centers on beautiful widow Lady Susan Vernon, who has come to the estate of her in-laws to wait out colorful rumors about her dalliances circulating through polite society. Whilst there, she decides to secure a husband for herself and her rather reluctant debutante daughter, Frederica.... (Full plot summary below)
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Set in the 1790s, Love and Friendship centers on beautiful widow Lady Susan Vernon, who has come to the estate of her in-laws to wait out colorful rumors about her dalliances circulating through polite society. Whilst there, she decides to secure a husband for herself and her rather reluctant debutante daughter, Frederica.
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| Independent (UK)Geoffrey MacnabLove & Friendship is an unexpected delight, a very dry and tremendously witty adaptation of a little known Jane Austen novella. |
| Winnipeg Free PressAlison GillmorLady Susan may be a bad person, but with Austen at her sharpest, Stillman at his snappiest and Beckinsale right on form, she is very good company. |
| Eye for FilmAmber WilkinsonWhitman respects and relishes in Austen's creation but is no slave to it, inventing additional characters to help the story flow. |
| Cinemalogue.comTodd JorgensonWhit Stillman might have been Jane Austen in a past life, because the filmmaker's sense matches the author's sensibility in this frequently amusing adaptation. |
| Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)John BeifussA more fortunate marriage than any suggested in its narrative, Stillman's first period piece makes a perfect match of Austen's timeless comedy and the director's lapidary mise-en-scene. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Nathalie AtkinsonAdapted with great warmth and wit, and with as much of Austen’s crackling dialogue as his own, Stillman shapes lean Austen descriptions such as “He is as silly as ever” into superb character bits for the preposterous twit Sir James Martin (Tom Bennett). |
| Consequence of SoundNico LangLove & Friendship is easily the funniest movie Whit Stillman has ever made. His bristling screenplay — which shows shades of Noël Coward and Evelyn Waugh — has so many impeccable one-liners that it would take three or four viewings to catch them all. |
| Los Angeles TimesGlenn WhippLove & Friendship is, first and foremost, a master class on the art of comic timing, in its filmmaking and acting. |
| Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlWith the plotting and the epigrams taken care of, Stillman seems liberated as a craftsman: Never before has one of his films been so crisp, so tart, so laugh-out-loud funny. |
| Movie TalkJason BestKate Beckinsale is perfect in the leading role of young widow Lady Susan Vernon, a beautiful and cunning woman who makes Machiavelli look like a bumbling innocent when it comes to scheming. |