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Marisol Gómez Mouakad | Puerto Rico, Mexico | 2016 | color | DCP | 90 min | Spanish, English | e.s.
They say forewarned is forearmed. But however many bad stories Reginald De Courcy (Xavier Samuel) has heard about Lady Susan Vernon (Kate Beckinsale), as soon as she moves in as a guest with his sister and brother-in-law, he falls irredeemably for her charms. His sister Catherine has to look on resignedly as Reginald is taken in by the much older widow, who is well known for her manipulative and adulterous behaviour. Love & Friendship is the ironic title of this cheerfully venomous love satire based on Jane Austen’s never-previously-filmed novella in letters, Lady Susan. While Susan makes up clever plans with her American best friend, Alicia (Chloë Sevigny), the men in her life remain blind to her cunning behaviour. The American Whit Stillman (Damsels in Distress, The Last Days of Disco) gives a sizzling impulse to this very British story set in the late 18th century. A villainous, up-tempo period piece full of pleasure.
Place: CINEMA 1
Date: 7 April 2016
Time: 14:15
Duration: 1:30
Place: CINEMA 1
Date: 8 April 2016
Time: 22:30
Duration: 1:30
Place: CINEMA 1
Date: 10 April 2016
Time: 17:00
Duration: 1:45
Year in
Festival
2016
Director
Whit Stillman
Camera
Richard van Oosterhout
Cast
Kate Beckinsale
Chloë Sevigny
Xavier Samuel
Emma Greenwell
Tom Bennett
Stephen Fry
Jemma Redgrave
Country
Ireland
France
Netherlands
Editor
Sophie Corra
Language
English
Length
94 min
Music
Mark Suozzo
Producer
Katie Holly
Louranne Bourrachot
Raymond van der Kaaij
Production Company
Blinder Films Ltd.
Chic Films
Revolver Amsterdam
Production Design
Anna Rackard
Sales
Protagonist Pictures
Scenario
Whit Stillman
based on the novella by Jane Austen
Year of Production
2016
Whit STILLMAN (1952, USA) is a writer, producer and director who has fulfilled those functions for all of his features. He started his career as a journalist for magazines and newspapers, including Village Voice, The Guardian and Vogue, before taking his first steps to becoming a filmmaker. His first feature, Metropolitan (1990), was welcomed with an Oscar nomination, after which he produced his second movie, Barcelona, in 1994 and his third, The Last Days of Disco in 1998, which he also wrote a novel about. After thirteen years of silence he made the film Damsels in Distress (2011). Love & Friendship (2016) is his fifth feature film.
Filmography
Metropolitan (1990), Barcelona (1994), Homicide: Life on the Street (1996, TV series, 1 episode: The Heart of a Saturday Night), The Last Days of Disco (1998), Damsels in Distress (2011), The Cosmopolitan (2014, TV series, 1 episode: Pilot), Love & Friendship (2016)