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Well, it all starts with this last part of the premise. and common sense, that is, of a certain delicacy in
When she is invited to a literary residency in England, the metaphorical gesture of turning the page. The
under the sign of Jane Austen, the lonely and clumsy film explores romanticism within a “sad humour”
Agathe ends up meeting the man who could very that never reaches the empty commotion of today's
well be her version of Mr. Darcy, while experiencing comedies (that unbearable habit of infantilising
writer's block after sending off a highly promising the viewer), seeking instead a sweet bitterness, or a
chapter... Are love and ink on paper incompatible? sweet literary bitterness. In this smooth progression,
not. we come across, for example, a final scene showing
Frederick Wiseman, the outstanding American
Any other romantic comedy would resolve this filmmaker, reading a poem to a small audience in a
impasse with a lot of commotion, noise, and baroque bookshop—if this isn't a wonderful and unforgettable
twists and turns. But it feels fair to say that «Jane moment, one that makes you want to save it as a
Austen Wrecked My Life» is on the side of sensitivity quote, I don't know what is. INÊS N. LOURENÇO

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