Well-versed viewers will find similarities with rom-coms like Bridget Jones and Notting Hill in this sweet yet strange ...

Laura Piani’s film rises above comparisons not just with Austen’s work and the trad romcom but also with attempts to weave ...

From a 21st-century vantage point, it’s all too easy to pigeonhole the novels of Jane Austen as the ultimate in prim and ...

This literary romance draws on Jane Austen for its inspiration for its story of a lonely French bookseller and aspiring novelist who has to choose between her old friend and ...

Modestly scoped, sometimes sweetly dopey, and sincerely moving, Jane Austen Wrecked My Life is a charmer. I watched the whole dang thing with a smile, and then painted my nails a very French red in ...

Jane Austen Wrecked My Life tries to revive the genre but ends up proving it passé. Agathe (tall, gawky, glorious Camille ...

Written and directed by Laura Piani, Jane Austen Wrecked My Life isn’t quite as playful a film as its title suggests. But ...

Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (Jane Austen a gâché ma vie) ★★1/2 (out of 4 stars) Less Sense, More Sensibility Camille Rutherford is engaging as Agathe, the under-employed clerk at Paris’s famed ...

The French director’s Austen-influenced romcom with a clever spin was inspired by a stint working at Paris bookshop Shakespeare and Company ...

Do the French do irony? Well, was Astérix a Gaul? Obviously they do, and do it pretty well to judge by many of their movies down the decades.

Jane Austen paid attention to the women novels had been invented to ignore, allowing readers to see their thoughts far more ...

Out now in cinemas is Jane Austen Wrecked My Life. This French romantic comedy follows Agathe (Camille Rutherford), a book ...