PRIDE AND PREJUDICE...A Timeless Romantic Tale

Rating: 9/10 (11 November 2005)

Keira Knightley brings magic to the screen from the first frame of the film as she reads a book and slowly walks back to the brick home of the Bennet family while ducks waddle about and clothes flap in the wind. Thus setting up the romantic location of the beautiful English country side and the magnificence of the great English homes which create a visual background for PRIDE AND PREJUDICE and in the development of all the characters which follow.
The cast is really superb, with Brenda Blethyn and Donald Sutherland in performances that cast the true essence of the Bennet mother and father and provide a strong contrast to the aristocracy represented by the always strong performance of Judy Dench.
Matthew Macfadyen is a wonderful Mr. Darcy and the scenes with he and the lovely Keira Knightly build and build in the development of their romance with the scene between them in the rain under a colonnade truly one to remember and cherish.
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE will stay with you forever, as the romance and the tale of the lovely Ms. Bennet and the handsome Mr. Darcy is timeless in its setting, dialog and romance.