FRIENDS WITH MONEY compared to Jane Austen
A review in the Los Angeles Times compares the new film FRIENDS WITH MONEY to Jane Austen’s work.
In fact, the writer-director holds such a keen mirror to modern times, has such a perfect ear for who we are and how we live in this particular corner of the world — brie on wheat bread, anyone? — that she brings another writer to mind. A woman who advised a young writer that “three or four families in a country village is the very thing to work on” and who famously never expanded her horizons beyond “the little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush.” A woman named Jane Austen.
There now, something to watch until BECOMING JANE comes out. 
ETA: Alert Janeite Laurie wrote to tell us that the reviewer, Kenneth Turan, is a JASNA member, so the comparison is not surprising.
