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Article: Sense and Sensibility.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- January 29, 1996
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Though Sense and Sensibility is not Jane Austen's best work, the screenplay that Emma Thompson drew from it, and the film that Ang Lee directed, capture the essence of the novel. There may be fewer earthy details here than in the recent Persuasion, but neither are there any obvious anachronisms. The broadening of certain effects is, like the foreshortening necessitated by the film format, unavoidable. The film is one of the prettiest in a long time, thanks to the exquisite production design of Luciana Arrighi, nicely judged costuming of Jenny Beavan and John Bright, authentic period movement by Jane Gibson, and rapturous cinematography by Michael Coulter. The film truly ...
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