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Article: `EMMA' ASCENDS TO TOP OF AUSTEN MOVIE PILE.(L.A. LIFE) (movie review)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- August 2, 1996
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Byline: Bob Strauss Daily News Film Critic
The Jane Austen movie trend just keeps getting better and better. ``Emma,'' like last year's ``Persuasion'' and ``Sense and Sensibility,'' is witty, literate, enchanting and not without a few insights into matters of the heart.
But more than those fine earlier films - and more than ``Clueless,'' which was basically an update of the same story - ``Emma'' packs a dramatic wallop. Though frivolous and effervescent and completely laced-up in its high English manners, ``Emma'' becomes a movie about feelings so deep it downright gives you the shivers.
Two Americans - director Douglas McGrath and headliner ...