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Love Affair With Austen Is 'Complete'
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¿ In "Persuasion," directed by Adrian Shergold, Sally Hawkins does well enough as Anne, the almost-past-her-sell-by-date heroine and for many the most admirable of Austen's women.
¿ In "Northanger Abbey," Davies utilizes Catherine's Gothic novel-inspired daydreaming to inject a touch of enticing and not entirely out-of-place sex.
¿ "Pride and Prejudice" is still immensely satisfying and, as mentioned, will give you another look at Firth's Darcy.
¿ In "Emma," Kate Beckinsale captures the essence of the minxlike matchmaker.
¿ "Sense and Sensibility" (airing March 30 and April 6) stars Hattie Morahan as the well-reasoned Elinor and Charity Wakefield as the spontaneous Marianne. This is a full, thoughtful and essentially true rendering of the work of a novelist who didn't buy the "common cant" of deriding novel reading as a less than worthy activity. She wrote, only slightly tongue in cheek, that there were some novels in which "the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humor are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language."
Much of the time Austen met that criteria, and at moments so do these visual manifestations of her talent.
