Tim Robey, writing in the Telegraph (UK), gave the film 5 out of 5 stars: "Flat-out hilarious. The film currently has a very rare perfect 100% rating on the "Rotten Tomatoes" critics website. The waters are troubled by the arrival at Churchill of the handsome, eligible Reginald DeCourcy ( Xavier Samuel) and silly but cheerful - and very rich - Sir James Martin ( Tom Bennett). Whilst ensconced there, she decides to secure a husband for herself and for her daughter, Frederica, played by Morfydd Clark.Ĭhloë Sevigny, who starred with Beckinsale in Stillman's The Last Days of Disco (1998), plays Lady Susan's friend and confidante Alicia Johnson, with Stephen Fry as her husband, the "very Respectable" Mr. Set in the 1790s, earlier than most Austen tales, LOVE & FRIENDSHIP concerns beautiful young widow Lady Susan Vernon ( Kate Beckinsale) who has come to Churchill, the estate of her in-laws, to wait out colourful rumours about her dalliances circulating through polite society. The film arrives in theatres nationwide on May 13 th 2016. LOVE & FRIENDSHIP, writer-director Whit Stillman's adaptation of Jane Austen's Lady Susan, was the comedy hit of this year's Sundance and Rotterdam film festivals. NEW YORK, /PRNewswire/ - Sony Classical proudly announces the release of LOVE & FRIENDSHIP (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) available digitally May 6 and on CD, May 13.
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