Persuasion

Persuasion
by Adrian Shergold

Persuasion
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Actor: Alice Krige, Anthony Head, Julia Davis, Rupert Penry-Jones, Sally Hawkins
Director: Adrian Shergold
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: David Odd
Producer: David Snodin
Producer: Murray Ferguson
Producer: Rebecca Eaton
Producer: Yvonne Isimeme Ibazebo
Writer: Jane Austen
Writer: Simon Burke
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 93 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-01-15
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Warner
Product features:
  • Jane Austen?s romantic masterpiece comes to DVD in a thrilling new production from the BBC and Masterpiece Theatre. Anne Elliot fell deeply in love with the handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth at the age of nineteen. But with neither fortune nor rank to recommend him, Anne was persuaded to break off her engagement. Eight years later, Anne has lived to regret her decision. She never st

Movie Reviews of Persuasion

Movie Review: Changes the feel of the story
Summary: 2 Stars

I was so disappointed in this film. I love the Amanda Root version, and was hoping for another great adaptation, with a newer look. This version changed so many events to try to make it more dramatic. I guess it succeeded in the added drama, but in so doing it changed the mood of the story. The whole movie up until the very end focused on the sad and serious aspects of the story. You never get to see Anne start to open up and come alive again the more she's around Captain Wentworth and other friends and seeing more of the world. This lack of emotional evolution bothers me so much more than all the changes in events. Even if you've never read the book, I wouldn't recommend this one-tone movie.

Summary of Persuasion

Jane Austen??Ts romantic masterpiece comes to DVD in a thrilling new production from the BBC and Masterpiece Theatre. Anne Elliot fell deeply in love with the handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth at the age of nineteen. But with neither fortune nor rank to recommend him, Anne was persuaded to break off her engagement. Eight years later, Anne has lived to regret her decision. She never stopped loving Wentworth, and when he returns from sea with a fortune and rank, she can only watch as every eligible young woman in the district falls at his feet.
Jane Austen fans will delight in the sumptuous production design and first-rate acting in the 2007 Masterpiece Theatre version of Persuasion. Sally Hawkins is controlled and moving as Anne Elliot, the quietly heartbroken but sensible heroine who was "persuaded" (read: forced) to turn away her true love but still carries an unseen torch for him. Hawkins's performance is genteel yet steely, and the quiet strength of the entire production. Hawkins looks alternately quietly lovely and sadly pinched--as one might expect the long frustrated Anne to look.

Other highlights include a post-Buffy Anthony Head, as Anne's clueless, blustery father, Sir Walter. Head gets to turn on his deft comic talent here in ways most American audiences have not yet seen him; he's clearly enjoying himself immensely, blustering about "my shrubberies" and other trivial affairs. The cinematography is lush (several breathtaking tracking shots are used, especially early on), as are the period costumes. The production was filmed exclusively on location, and the reality of the sets enforces the story.

Some fans may prefer the 1995 Amanda Root version, for the casting of Ciaran Hinds as Capt. Wentworth, but this later effort is a worthy entry in the Austen film oeuvre--and Rupert Penry-Jones is a dreamboat in his own right. As the wistful Anne says, on behalf of all women, "We do not forget you, so soon as you forget us." --A.T. Hurley

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