A beautiful Jane Austen film

Rating: 9/10 (22 November 2005)

This film is really worth Jane Austen's wonderful novel! It's funny and sad, witty and romantic. The photography is absolutely beautiful,the scenes of the English countryside breathtaking. There is also a rare kind of realism showing the not-so-fancy everyday life of the Bennetts and their servants. The acting is magnificent, and I especially liked Brenda Blethyn as Mrs. Bennett, Donald Sutherland as Mr. Bennett and Rosamund Pike as Jane Bennett, not to mention Simon Wood's Mr. Bingley. I haven't read the book in years but the film brings back the pleasure of reading it - I'll have to pick it up at once! I have seen other films based on Austen's novels but this one, I think, is the best by far.