Wednesday 31 December 2014

Becoming Jane (2007 Julian Jarrold)

I had just pulled our copy of Becoming Jane from the shelf and turned to Q when she said, "Becoming Jane's on TV later - we should watch it", clearly a coincidence too strong to ignore.

A somewhat speculative story based on Austen's letter extracts which refer to a brief association with an Irishman. Anne Hathaway is the budding novelist and James McEvoy the boxing, boozing lawyer. With Julie Walters and James Cromwell, Anna Maxwell Martin, Maggie Smith, Laurence Fox, Lucy Cohu (the French widow), Ian Richardson and Joe Anderson.

Shot by Eigil Bryld (In Bruges, House of Cards, Kinky Boots).

We didn't even realise Anne Coates had a daughter (with Douglas Hickox) who was an editor and today we met her - Emma Hickox. She also worked on Kinky Boots, St Trinians 2, The Boat that Rocked etc. Great cutting in fight scenes, sure she's following her mum in some of the sequences made up of dissolves. Anyway, she added something cool to the film.

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