truly awful!

Rating: 4/10 (19 May 2020)

Saw it again, just to be sure, but this movie is awful. Rushing through the story, inaccurate, Elizabeth with plain frocks, messy hair, Mr. Bingley as the village idiot, NO subtlety, caricatures of most characters, Darcy boring, Knightley complacent as a modernized Elisabeth. The movie is beautiful to look at but misses the point in every level: the balls, the dresses, the behaviours, the wit, the tension. The setup and look of the film sometimes, as others have pointed out, would rather be fit for a novel like Bronte's, not for the proper, rational, balanced and wise style of Austen. I mean, Elizabeth meeting the Bigleys and Darcy with all her hair down, tangled, meetings in the rain, or at odd hours or improprely dressed? things like that make for another style of story. anyway, maybe i would not mind all these if the spirit of the story was right but i saw no depth, no real fire, just flat feelings trying to seem intense by rain or messy attire. Having seen all possible adaptations of Pride and Prejudice, I'm still waiting for a cinematic one that will live up to the 1995 tv version.