Perfect

Rating: 10/10 (24 March 2006)

Excellent direction, acting, script, character development, sets, photography, editing. I believe Jane Austen would have been well satisfied with this film version of her book. Even though a successful life for a woman in 1800s England was limited to marriage (successful or not) the Bennet family is real, the characters are real, their aspirations are real and what makes Jane Austen's books forever current is that we become the characters in her book and in this wonderful remake of the movie. But, even without sound the movie is a glorious visual feast. Some landscape scenes are beautiful art that could grace the walls of my home. And the brooding scenes of Keira Knightley are not just seen, but also felt. She is the Vivian Leigh of Gone With The Wind. This movie is a classic.