Love & Friendship (2016)
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Love & Friendship (2016)

Genre
Drama
Release Date
May 13, 2016
Studio
Roadside Attractions
Official Site
http://www.loveandfriendshipmovie.com/
Genre
Drama
Release Date
May 13, 2016
MPAA Rating
PG
Duration
92 minute(s)
Production Budget
-
Studio
Roadside Attractions
Official Site
http://www.loveandfriendshipmovie.com/
Director
Whit Stillman
Producer
Whit Stillman, Katie Holly, Lauranne Bourrachot
Screenwriter
Whit Stillman
Starring

Set in the opulent drawing rooms of eighteenth-century English society, "Love & Friendship" focuses on the machinations of a beautiful widow, Lady Susan Vernon (Kate Beckinsale), who, while waiting for social chatter about a personal indiscretion to pass, takes up temporary residence at her in-laws' estate.

While there, the intelligent, flirtatious, and amusingly egotistical Lady Vernon is determined to be a matchmaker for her daughter Frederica-and herself too, naturally. She enlists the assistance of her old friend Alicia (Chloe Sevigny), but two particularly handsome suitors (Xavier Samuel and Tom Bennett) complicate her orchestrations.

Adapting Jane Austen's unpublished early novella Lady Susan, Whit Stillman returns to the Sundance Film Festival (where his Metropolitan premiered in 1990) in top form with his latest comedy of manners. Kate Beckinsale excels in her role as the deliciously devious Lady Vernon and delivers each line with relish. With exquisite period detail and a script teeming with bon mots and witty dialogue, "Love & Friendship" is a rare-and rarified-treat.