Pride and Prejudice

Rating: 10/10 (25 March 2006)

Keira Knightley as was Matthew Macfeydan,what a revelation in this new film version of Jane Austen's best loved novel. Even my usually Bruce Willis action movies husband didn't mind at all seeing the film. Of course Keira was beautiful and luminous in the role of Lizzie and Matthew to my surprise made Darcy his own. His nuanced portrayal was not heavy handed and my goodness those eyes (swooon)! Keira deserved her Oscar nomination for her rather more fiery, tempestuous portrayal of the independe,ntly spirited Lizzie. I commend Joe Wright for this, the most sensuous (uh, Jane Austen?) adaptation to be put to film. I disagree with others who cannot get their minds out of the 1995 mini-series with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle. As if there can be no one that can be better. Colin was great as Mr. Darcy. Matthew gave him a more vulnerable, sexy edge. Keira, absolutely fantastic, especially in the proposal scene. They're both wet! That takes care of the Colin pond scene that got girls hearts aflutter. Joe Wright says the time frame is the 1790's which is closer to the date Jane wrote the novel. So it explains the natural waistlines of the clothes the Bennett women wore in the film, except for Jane. She of all the women wear the empire gowns the women were starting to wear at the end of the 1790's. Of course for some reason, at the Netherfield Ball, all the Bennett women except Mrs. Bennett wear the empire gowns. And how does Lizzie traipse all over the rainy and cold English countryside without a bonnet and barely a Spencer coat or cloak to keep from catching cold?