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-Video, 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

Movie Reviews of Persuasion

Movie Review: Much better than the 1995 version
Summary: 5 Stars

I saw this version of Persuasion first, then the 1995 version. I have to admit that when I first saw this I thought Anne Elliott quite dowdy. Her clothes certainly are, but if you want dowdy, see the 1995 version. After seeing this again I think Anne is pretty and, of course, Frederick Wentworth is very handsome. This version is more fun to watch first, because almost everyone in the film is good-looking (or at least not really bad-looking!), the surroundings are beautiful, I can actually understand what they're saying without having the subtitles on (yes, I needed them for the 1995 version), and the love story is much more believable. This Capt. Wentworth is one worth pining over for 8 years! Overall, well done.

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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