The Jane Austen Book Club, written and directed
by Robin Swicord, based on the book by Karen Joy Fowler
8 out of 10
A different
version of this note and thoughts on other books are available at:
- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEVa4_CsRStSBBDo4uJWT8BSWtTTn0N1E
and http://realini.blogspot.ro/
This is a
fine, rather sophisticated romantic comedy- drama.
It is not
just about insight into the psychology of suffering women, but we also have
analysis, various takes on…Jane Austen
We have a
series of interesting characters, most of them women dealing with some sort of
deception or failure in their lives.
Maria Bello
has the role of Jocelyn, who is a dog breeder and I recognize the type for my
wife is a borzoi owner that I try to convince to limit the number to the five
we had.
Amy Brenneman
is Sylvia, married to Daniel and Allegra’s mother.
One fine
day, her husband comes home and says that he cannot lie any longer and he is
moving in with another woman.
After many
years of what was supposed to be a happy marriage, Sylvia is depressed and her
friends try to change that.
Therefore Bernadette
and Jocelyn come up with the idea of a book club to distract the abandoned
woman.
Jocelyn meets
with the younger Grigg, who is a fan of science fiction literature, but is
willing to read Jane Austen.
So he
becomes he only man in the club with six other women members.
They meet
in each others’ homes and when Grigg’s turn is up, he offers a gothic, haunting
show for the scared company…
-
What do you do for Halloween, if you
did all this now?
-
Oh, Halloween is very different
Jocelyn tries
to make the young man interested in Sylvia, or at the very least take her out
for lunch and distract her.
Instead of
experiencing PTSD- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder- Sylvia has to try PTG- Post
Traumatic Growth.
Alas, when
it seems to work and Grigg and Sylvia talk and appear to have a great time,
both Jocelyn and Daniel are not overjoyed.
As a matter
of fact, we learn that Daniel had dated Jocelyn, gave her first puppy and then
Jocelyn passed him on to Sylvia…
-
She traded your husband for a dog?
Well, more
or less.
Allegra has
her own misfortunes, but they involve a woman, not a man, for she is a lesbian
and experiences a break up.
Emily Blunt-
an actress that I like- is Prudie Drummond, yet another woman unsatisfied with
her married life.
When her
mother dies, at the funeral, her spouse is talking to a hot, sexy woman and
Prudie is very upset.
In the
following heated exchange, she accuses the man of wanting to hump that bitch
there at the funeral…
He protests
that he just talked to one of her friends…Friends? That woman only came because
it was a funeral and she wanted to see me suffer and down, she has always hated
me…
So Prudie
is on the point of having an affair with one of her students, realizing very
well it is inappropriate…
On the
other hand, Madame Macron, even if she had been the mother of three and
married, went on to marry the man who is now…the president of France and…more
than twenty years her junior(?)
There are
interesting quotes from Jane Austen- which has her Pride and Prejudice listed
on the list of Best 100 Books Ever Written:
And various
analysis, takes on characters from her books, a discussion on why the author
did not marry and much more.
Very good
film
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