Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Agathe harbors the romantic notion that she is living in the wrong century and struggles to finish a book inspired by a fantasy.

French writer Laura Piani tells IndieWire how she used her directorial debut as a modern way into Austen's smart brand of romantic comedy. Many film fans are starved for romantic stories right now, so ...

Jane Austen has touched multiple generations of women; that's an undeniable fact. From searching for their ideal Mr. Darcy to avoiding the Wickhams and Mr. Collinses of the world, her stories have ...

France is keeping the tradition of the romantic comedy alive with Jane Austen Wrecked My Life—aka Jane Austen a gâché ma vie, in French— a new, modern French rom-com that captures the spirit of Jane ...

Two specialists from the Jane Austen Society of North America share intriguing highlights of the author's life, career and literary impact.

Laura Piani's fresh rom-com about a love-challenged French writer is more "Persuasion" than "Emma," but still finds its own pains and pleasures with ease. Agathe Robinson is beset by two classic ...

Camille Rutherford is engaging as Agathe, the under-employed clerk at Paris’s famed Shakespeare and Company bookstore. Engaging enough to save this frothy rom-com trading on the trope that too much ...

A pleasant, low-friction bit of romantic fiction, “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life” is the first feature from writer-director Laura Piani. In her mid-20s, Piani worked in Paris in the venerable ...

In an early scene in Kate Evans’ Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen, she depicts 3-month-old, bundled-up baby Jane being smuggled out through the back door of her family’s large home. The ...

Camille Rutherford stars as a would-be romance writer who works at a Paris bookstore in Jane Austen Wrecked My Life. (Sony Pictures Classics) On the stock exchange of literary acclaim, reputations ...

Sony Pictures Classics is out with Jane Austen Wrecked My Life in limited release, Angel Studios’ The Last Rodeo opens wide and A24’s Friendship added screens with few new indies braving the double ...