Saturday 23 January 2021

Mansfield Park (2007 Iain B. MacDonald)

Billy Piper takes the lead as Fanny Price, and the action as far as I recall does not move out of the house and grounds of Mansfield Park  - Newby Hall, Yorkshire - where it was shot on location (indeed, inside it still looks exactly the same today). With Blake Ritson, Douglas Hodge, Jemma Redgrave, James D'Arcy, Maggie O'Neill (who I think overdoes it), Hayley Atwell, Joseph Beattie, Michelle Ryan, Rory Kinnear, Catherine Steadman and Dexter Fletcher.

It's handsome enough but somehow fails to quite hit the mark. Adapted by Maggie Wadey.

One of many period pictures edited by Melanie Oliver. She's now working on Last Letter from Your Lover with Felicity Jones and Shailene Woodley.

ITV and WGBH Boston, from legendary producer Rebecca Eaton.

We're not really sure about Billie Piper...

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