Persuasion movie

How Marianne Agertoft took a new approach to the classic Jane Austen favorite.

A single woman is drinking alone, crying over a man. She’s probably pining for her lost girlhood, the spotlight glow of youth and the gazes that gravitate to a girl bathing in it. These days, she’s…

Free audiobook recordings of Persuasion can be found at librivox.org Persuasion As an adult who has been heartbroken this story speaks to me. It's not my favorite Austen, perhaps because I usually lean towards the lighter happier stories for escape. Yet, this story has more depth, and when I'm ready for a quiet evening of introspection I put in Persuasion. I do love this story. Persuasion is a story that seems to appeal to a slightly older audience. I'm not selecting an age, it's more of a…

Netflix recently came out with a new adaptation of Persuasion and I wanted to love it. Netflix has done some really solid stuff in recent years and I love a good Austen adaptation. But ultimately I was extremely disappointed with this movie because it tried to be two separate movies and it failed at both. This is going to contain spoilers, so if you haven't read the book, or watched the movie and you don't want spoilers, go do that first. Anne Elliot and Frederick Wentworth at the beginning…

“My beloved Dakota Johnson 😍”

Yes, give me more Regency-era romances.

Whether it’s the new Persuasion adaptation or the counterfactuals of Bridgerton and, er, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, we just can’t seem to shake Jane Austen’s world of dances and drawing rooms

Dakota Johnson as Anne Elliot in ‘Persuasion’ (Film, 2022).