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JANE AUSTEN
WRECKED MY
LIFE

ORIGINAL TITLE
Jane Austen a gâché ma vie
DIRECTOR
Laura Piani
STARS
Camille Rutherford
Charlie Anson
Pablo Pauly
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
France
RUNTIME
98 min.
YEAR
2024

In an era of predictable romantic comedies, boundary of time is blurred here in a timeless
when stories about bookshops are hardly worth romanticism... which is, in fact, the hallmark of the
mentioning anymore («Notting Hill» was released classics.
in 1999), here is a film that intelligently avoids
the pitfalls of irrelevance. What's more, it does so Agathe (Camille Rutherford), the heroine of Laura
without the pretence of "revitalising" the genre. Piani's first feature film, is a bookseller at the iconic
So what's new? «Jane Austen Wrecked My Life» Shakespeare & Co. in Paris and an informal expert
is a romantic comedy that distinguishes itself by on Jane Austen, an author she never misses an
maintaining an elegant balance between classic opportunity to recommend to customers. And, as
inspiration and the contemporary world, without you might imagine, she too seems to live in “literary
causing any conflict. In other words, the feeling potential”: she is single, trapped in a secret ambition
of the protagonist who says she is “in the wrong to discover a passion similar to that in Austen's
century” becomes true for the viewer, as the books, and she aspires to achieve a place as a writer.

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