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Jul 15, 2022 · Austen’s final novel is called “Persuasion” because it’s about how the snobs surrounding Anne persuaded her to reject Wentworth when he had no rank or fortune. Now he’s back, and he’s a captain, but he remains a dreadful bore.
Living with her snobby family on the brink of bankruptcy, Anne Elliot is a nonconforming woman with modern sensibilities. When Frederick Wentworth--the dashing one she let get...
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Jul 8, 2022 · Dakota Johnson stars with Cosmo Jarvis, Henry Golding and Richard E. Grant in Netflix's rom-com reworking of Jane Austen’s final novel.
Persuasion Reviews. Undersells its source material and underestimates Jane Austen fans. Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Jul 12, 2024. This version of Persuasion has a few terrific things...
Jul 14, 2022 · Dakota Johnson smirks her way through a Netflix adaptation of the rekindled romance in Jane Austen’s last novel, our critic writes.
Jul 15, 2022 · Persuasion: Directed by Carrie Cracknell. With Dakota Johnson, Cosmo Jarvis, Richard E. Grant, Yolanda Kettle. Eight years after Anne Elliot was persuaded not to marry a dashing man of humble origins, they meet again. Will she seize her second chance at true love?
Jul 15, 2022 · Persuasion is sufficiently bold and consistent with its flagrant liberties to get away with them. It also helps that the novel’s long-suffering protagonist, Anne Elliot, has been given irrepressible spirit and an irreverent sense of irony in Dakota Johnson’s incandescent performance.
Jul 8, 2022 · ‘Persuasion’ Review: An Effervescent Dakota Johnson Gives Jane Austen Drama a Cheeky Retelling. Carrie Cracknell's adaptation is indeed fun and contemporary, but also suffused with...
Jul 10, 2022 · Film Review: ‘Persuasion’ Starring Dakota Johnson. By Todd McCarthy. July 10, 2022 7:16pm. Dakota Johnson as Anne Elliot in "Persuasion" Nick Wall/Netflix. “He’s a 10,” the leading lady ...
Jul 15, 2022 · In Persuasion, Dakota Johnson tries to navigate playing an Austen heroine written like she's a cringey mashup of Fleabag and Bridget Jones.
