![]() ![]() As she reminds her teenaged daughter, “We don’t live, we visit.” Stillman returns periodically to these frank exchanges (conducted in secret – Alicia is forbidden by her husband to meet with the dissolute widow), imparting structure to a film that is otherwise as peripatetic as its heroine, who has nowhere to hang her ostentatious, ostrich-feathered hats. Love & Friendship, his fifth film, adapts Austen’s Lady Susan – a lesser-known epistolary novella – converting many of the letters that pass between the title character and her confidante Alicia into tête-à-têtes. Among other qualities, it’s this that makes Stillman so eligible a proxy for Jane Austen. ![]() Ireland/France/The Netherlands/USA/United Kingdom 2016Īlicia Johnson (an American) Chloë SevignyĪs in Barcelona, so in Stillman’s other films: talking – in rooms, in bars, inside cars, on the dance floor – precipitates incident dialogue has consequences. ![]()
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