The main drawback with the most recent version of Mansfield Park is that it’s too short, plain and simply. Once all the ads are removed, it’s just 93 minutes long, which isn’t nearly enough to get the full flavour of the book and means large chunks have to be cut out. The most damaging loss is the [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Mansfield Park (2007)
Posted in costume drama, Jane Austen, tagged Billie Piper, Douglas Hodge, Iain B MacDonald, ITV, Jemma Redgrave, Maggie O'Neill, Maggie Wadey, Mansfield Park on November 30, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Persuasion (2007)
Posted in costume drama, Jane Austen, tagged Adrian Shergold, ITV, Persuasion, Rupert Penry-Jones, Sally Hawkins, Simon Burke on November 30, 2008 | 6 Comments »
This is a review I originally posted on livejournal, as with the other reviews I’ll be posting to start off this blog. This was probably my favourite of the three short ITV Austen adaptations, yet for some reason it is the one I find hardest to write about. While I’m watching it I’m spellbound, yet [...]
