| Category: | Movies | | Genre: | Romantic Comedy |
I hoped for it, yes, but never have I imagined that anything can come close to the glorious & poignant elegance of Joe Wright's period-piece (Pride & Prejudice).
Not until the life of its author has been made into film.. however speculated the romance was.
The overall cinematography greatly resembles that from Joe Wright's direction: The amazing attention to detail, the reflective angled shots of the characters & the concentrated focus on particular subjects to make the audience linger on a certain emotion.
Anne Hathaway is on her medium but I daresay that her role as Jane Austen is her best role to date. By replacing quirk with more elegance, independence, poise and composure.. she's towered over her previous acts as Andy Sachs, Princess Mia & Ella Enchanted & showed that she has a great deal of chance to avoid being typecasted.
James McAvoy, my favorite actor (second only to Cillian Murphy), delivers an intense performance yet again - reducing me into nothing more than a choked-up heap of an emotional mess. He's always been the perfect & ideal period-piece leading man & he rises above the challenge of playing our favorite author's adventurous love interest.
These two has amazing chemistry! I have never felt such emotional investment to a period-piece couple since Lizzie & Darcy from Pride & Prejudice.
The intensity of the Lizzie/Darcy First Proposal scene is now rivaled by the heartbreaking Jane/Tom post-engagements forest confrontation.
You look at the characters of this movie and realize that each of them is familiar because you have already been acquainted with them in one way or another through the books Jane have authored.
So here's the very J. Austen truth, made for the contradiction and certainly comes with a smile: I've never been more grateful to a film for making me cry.
EVERYTHING I LEARNED, I LEARNED FROM "BECOMING JANE":
- If the guy named his daughter after you, he's not over you.
VERDICT: High Price.
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