PG | 1h 49min | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 15 July 2022 (USA)
Although there have been close to 90 non-stage adaptations of Jane Austen’s seven novels, only 11 of them are feature films. After watching rookie director Carrie Cracknel’s “Persuasion,” it’s easy to see why filmmakers have largely shied away from tackling the works of one of the most respected and revered English writers of all time.
Released posthumously in tandem with “Northanger Abbey” in 1817, “Persuasion” was Austen’s last completed novel and, in the opinion of many, her most mature and fully realized work.
It also makes use of a storytelling device identified as “free indirect discourse [FID],” a technique Austen employed to a much smaller degree in “Pride and Prejudice.” Austen was one of the first novelists to utilize FID and the technique would later be used by other writers including Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, James Joyce, and D.H. Lawrence….
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