Persuasion (DVD)

Description: Genre: Television / Theatrical Release: 1971 / Director: Howard Baker / Actors: Anne Firbank, Bryan Marshall ... / DVD ... more

Persuasion (DVD) ... released 24 August, 2004 at BBC Warner / Features of the DVD: Closed-captioned, Colour, DVD-Video, Original recording remastered, NTSC

Newest Review: ... in the viewer feeling claustrophobically close to the proceedings. Very often, words belie actions; this is easily captured ... more

... on the page, but rarely so well as this in films. There is much humour in this film, in Jane Austen's usual style of mocking social airs and graces. However, even the greatest buffoons, Anne's father and her hypochondriac married sister, are played with such verve and conviction that, while they flirt with hamminess, they never veer into the cartoonish (something other films of her work have been guilty of). They provide a pleasant distraction from the central storyline, but never overwhelm it, delicate thing that ...more

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	Persuasion [DVD] [1971] [Region 1] [USImport] [NTSC] Release Date: 2004 - 08 - 24, Last Update 24.12.2009 05:45	£ 5.56

Persuasion [DVD] [1971] [Region 1] [USImport] [NTSC]
Release Date: 2004 - 08 - 24,

Last Update 24.12.2009 05:45

£ 5.56

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Persuasion (DVD): Can I Persuade You? (1705 words)
by - written on 06/12/06 (Very useful, 270 readings)
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"Persuasion" is based on Jane Austen's final completed novel of the same name. I am reviewing the 1995 BBC version. It stars Ciaran Hinds and Amanda Root in the lead roles, with a few familiar faces from other Austen adaptations in the smaller roles. The film opens with a shot of a ship at sea, Napoleon has been defeated and the men are returning home. We are then transported to a stately home with lush green fields, although it has a unique look to it compared with other period films. Visually, this film is quite stark and less glossy than some other Austen productions. There is often a sort of bleak, unforgiving quality to the cinematography ... Read the complete review

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