

PHOTOGRAPH BY BERNARD WALSH / AMAZON STUDIOS / ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONSįor Stillman, Austen’s England is like John Ford’s West-a place that Stillman had no personal experience of but that, in his idealizing cinematic reconstitution, embodies his crucial ideas. In “Love & Friendship,” a Jane Austen adaptation directed by Whit Stillman and starring Kate Beckinsale, the story of a woman’s self-liberation in a changing society becomes strangely, deeply personal.
