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SENSE AND SENSIBILITY – Roger Goula
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton
There are few authors whose works have proved quite as enduringly popular with filmmakers as Jane Austen. For decades her novels have provided the basis for some of the most beloved period dramas in cinema, from the multiple adaptations of Pride and Prejudice and Emma to Persuasion, Mansfield Park, and of course Sense and Sensibility. The latter was most famously adapted for the screen in 1995 by director Ang Lee, with Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, and Alan Rickman starring in a film which won enormous critical acclaim and an Academy Award for Thompson’s screenplay. That version also boasted a magnificent Oscar-nominated score by Patrick Doyle, which remains one of the great romantic film scores of the 1990s. Subsequent adaptations have included an acclaimed 2008 BBC television version, but the story now returns to cinemas in a new production directed by British filmmaker Georgia Oakley. Read more…
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