Into the mix comes Isabella’s opportunist brother John (William Beck) and Henry’s selfish brother Captain Frederick Tilney (Mark Dymond). Field) and his sweet-natured sister Eleanor (Catherine Walker). Meanwhile, the impressionable girl has become enamored of an affable snob named Henry Tilney (J.J.
Catherine’s personable brother James (Hugh O’Connor), however, has won the attentions of the young women in the Thorpe family and their eldest, Isabella (Carey Mulligan), seeks to make Catherine her best friend.
Allen (Sylvestra Le Touzel) is easily impressed by the Bath elite and only too aware that she lacks acquaintance with any of them. Allen (Desmond Barrit) has a decent living but Mrs. Like all Austen characters, her hardworking father (Gerry O’Brien) and gentle mother (Julia Dearden) know that money is more important than romance, however, so they are happy for Catherine to accept an invitation from the better-off Allens to live with them in Bath. There’s lust and hunger in these characters and Davies, along with director Jon Jones (“A Very Social Secretary,” “Archangel”), gives them full rein while never betraying the social straightjackets of the time.Ī voice-over using Austen’s words sets the scene as Davies matches the author for economy in showing Catherine’s growth from a plain and awkward child to a smart and pretty teenager.įelicity Jones is all wide eyes and passionate heart as the young woman who seeks to be a heroine in her own love story if she could ever find the right hero.
This is Austen for those who imagine wrongly that her novels are dry and dainty.
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