Out now in cinemas is Jane Austen Wrecked My Life. This French romantic comedy follows Agathe (Camille Rutherford), a book ...

Charming, clever romcom that casts Rutherford as a French bookseller who gets cast into a messy love triangle at a Jane Austen retreat across La Manche. The film does occasionally struggle with ...

Laura Piani’s film rises above comparisons not just with Austen’s work and the trad romcom but also with attempts to weave ...

Jane Austen Wrecked My Life is a charming but flawed new romantic comedy that features a winning performance from lead ...

These days, few writers have a higher valuation than Jane Austen, who's gone from being merely a great novelist to becoming a marketable brand. The appealing Camille Rutherford stars as the 30 ...

The screenplay was influenced by Laura's several visits to Chawton House in Hampshire, where Jane Austen spent her final years. The experience, she said, inspired her to blend Austen’s world with a ...

Some of “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life” takes place at Shakespeare and Company, the longtime independent bookstore on Paris’ ...

Written and directed by Laura Piani, Jane Austen Wrecked My Life isn’t quite as playful a film as its title suggests. But ...

Jane Austen has been a popular author. Not only are her stories still read and studied by millions, but they are frequently adapted into television series and feature films. She has also been ...

A despised mogul seeks a fresh triumph, orphaned siblings land with a nightmare foster mother, and a Jane fan finds herself ...

Jane Austen Wrecked My Life is too saccharine to reverse the slow death of the romcom. By David Sexton Is it still possible to make a great romcom? Perhaps not in a contemporary setting. Jane Austen ...

Laura Piani's amiable new romance is weighed down by all its allusions and borrowings — and ultimately fails to deliver on ...