“A retrograde version of Pride and Prejudice”
Alert Janeite AmandaJ sent us a link to ABC’s “Margaret and David” review of Becoming Jane, which has just opened Down Under.
DAVID: Margaret?
MARGARET: It seems like a retrograde version of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE.
DAVID: Sort of, yeah.
MARGARET: Doesn’t it, because, I mean, we just had Keira Knightley striding through the fields, getting mud-splattered and realistic in the last version, and this seems to me terribly cliched and rather unimaginative, particularly in its casting.
DAVID: Yeah, it’s a case of deja vu, isn’t it?
MARGARET: Yes. It’s sort of a shame that they broached this subject that should have been really interesting and really just tried to regurgitate what we’ve seen quite a few times before.
