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In 1995, the same year as Emma Thompson's version of Sense and Sensibilty and the BBC production of Pride and Prejudice,"there was another (and in my opinion far superior) Jane Austen movie - "Persausion". One of the reasons that this film version resonates is that is was less glossy, with realistic look characters. Amanda Root, who plays Anne Elliot, is older and a very real looking every woman - she borders on plain in a way that Kiera Knightly could never. This movie too, has the dishelved hair, the mud from traipsing across wet fields on the bottom of the herione's skirt - only director Roger Michell did it 9 years ago. The feelings are supressed and acted out in both Amanda Root and Ciran Hinds faces as seperated lovers is subtle and heart wretching.
It always kills me to hear about Jane Austen movies and to have this realistic, but touching gem never mentioned.
