Book Lovers Movie Screening: SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
We're excited to announce that Silent Book Club is partnering with Focus Features to offer our members a special advanced "Book Lovers" screening of the new film adaptation of Jane Austen’s SENSE AND SENSIBILITY in New York City and Los Angeles on October 6!
Directed by Georgia Oakley and starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles as Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, this fresh take on the classic story captures the timeless wit, romance, and fierce sisterly bond that Austen fans have cherished for generations.
Revisiting Austen’s novel with an eye to adapt it for the screen, screenwriter Diana Reid was surprised by how contemporary both the characters and the narrative felt. Austen certainly wasn’t using modern dating lingo, nevertheless, behaviors like love bombing and ghosting were front and center. "Just because the labels have changed, doesn’t mean that people have," Reid says. "Some of the heartbreak in the novel felt like the kind of thing that you would see someone complain about on TikTok. A lot of her comedy comes from the fact that other people can be really annoying, but it just makes the romances all the more romantic—she essentially says that it is remarkable to find someone who you really like in this world, someone who sees the world the way you do."
“For me, what’s special about reading classic literature is that you encounter these people who, on the surface, are nothing like you at all,” Reid says. “They live in totally different worlds, they operate under different social codes, and they express themselves in a way that you would never express yourself. Still, you come to feel for them, and you realize that, under the surface, they actually are like you. That feeling of empathy is so much more profound if you feel like you’re empathizing across a gulf in circumstance.”
For this adaptation of SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, director Georgia Oakley and her producing partners were keenly interested in making the world of Jane Austen come alive in a way that would feel both authentic and imminently relatable to today’s audiences.
“I was really trying to get into what it might have felt like to live in Devon 200 years ago, steering away from this preconceived idea that we have about Austen, that everything takes place in a stuffy drawing room,” Oakley says. “The locations and the set design and the costumes having a loose, unbuttoned feeling, that was definitely part of my overall vision.”
If you're in the NYC metro area or Los Angeles, don't miss your chance to be the first to see SENSE AND SENSIBILITY on October 6th! The film opens in U.S. theaters on October 16.
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