A total disaster, not just the miscast, but everything...

Rating: 1/10 (25 January 2006)

Pride and prejudice is my favorite book ever, I read it twice a year, and it always thrill me... Maybe I expected too much be I was very disappointed... Keira Knightley is quite OK, but she always keep the same expression on her face during the whole movie (pouting most of the time!), and she plays a very arrogant Lizzy. Matthew Mc Faydyen is OK too, cute and charming, but he looks like he's going to cry every second of the movie! The other characters are dumb (like Mr Bingley!) or vulgar (like Miss Bingley), or for most of them, transparent... you don't care about them... But the thing that really ruined the movie was the disrespect of the proprieties... They mattered so much to the society in this time, and are very important in the book... that's the basement of P&P... and here, they meet at night when they are in their nightdress, Bingley come into the room where Jane is lying ill, and start to talk to her... amazing to think it's in 1795 in the aristocracy...
To finish, the director tried to mix Jane Austen with the Brontë Sisters, which hated Jane's writings, by the way... and it's unbelievable to see Mr Darcy and Lizzy together under the rain, he, telling I love you... Where is Heathcliff? screaming and hitting tree trunks with his head?
Cant' believe that with a wonderful story, and so much money, they ruined the movie... I understand that if you didn't read the book, you can like this movie, but if you did read it, you can't like it!