This might have made for a decent movie, but the choppy and over fast pace made everything too confusing to follow, and after a half hour my mother and I gave up on it.
I have not read the novel it was based on, and I have read maybe one or two Jane Austen books (and that was for school decades ago), but the idea sounded interesting. But other reviewers here have said that the movie fails to follow the novel it was based on, and the stories of the main characters did not necessarily correspond to what happened in any Jane Austen stories (as the box for the movie implied was the case).
Though they were ahead of their time for their era, it is difficult to believe the most liberal-minded authors of that era would have covered lesbianism, or for that matter, bestiality (as implied by the remark about the dog taking care of a woman's sexual needs). Don't bother.
I have not read the novel it was based on, and I have read maybe one or two Jane Austen books (and that was for school decades ago), but the idea sounded interesting. But other reviewers here have said that the movie fails to follow the novel it was based on, and the stories of the main characters did not necessarily correspond to what happened in any Jane Austen stories (as the box for the movie implied was the case).
Though they were ahead of their time for their era, it is difficult to believe the most liberal-minded authors of that era would have covered lesbianism, or for that matter, bestiality (as implied by the remark about the dog taking care of a woman's sexual needs). Don't bother.