NPR's Scott Simon talks to French writer-director Laura Piani about her new movie, a romantic comedy titled "Jane Austen Wrecked My Life." As Agathe Robinson moved through the shelves of the famed ...

Jane Austen fans around the world have been celebrating the 250th Anniversary of her birth with a wide variety of festivals, conferences, conventions, and other activities. Her novels and her life ...

Indies held their own on super start-of-summer weekend as Jane Austen, the late 18 th century British novelist and early feminist continued her box office run in Jane Austen Wrecked My Life.

On a rainy evening in Santa Barbara, Jane Austen Wrecked My Life opened the 40th Santa Barbara Film Festival. A line of umbrellas stretched along the Arlington Theatre, protecting an audience eager to ...

"I'm very, very good at screwing up." Sony Pictures Classics has revealed an official US trailer for an indie film titled Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, a fun romantic comedy from France also titled ...

Great novels, like so many French movies, set unrealistic expectations for mere mortals. Laura Piani’s splendid debut balances reality with the effervescent charm of vintage swooners. Blocked in both ...

Take Laura Piani’s “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life.” The opening title cards look extremely familiar. They use the Windsor Light Condensed font, which every cinephile will recognize from Woody Allen’s ...

Since then, there has been a rush of them – a fact which will be explored in a special talk for this year's Chichester International Film Festival at the Chichester Cinema 250 years after Austen’s ...

Derbyshire is set to welcome a host of Jane Austen-themed events this summer. They are to help celebrate the novelist’s 250th birthday, and the 20th anniversary of Chatsworth House being immortalised ...

This book traces the history of film and television adaptations of Jane Austen manuscripts, compares the adaptations to the manuscripts, compares the way different adaptations treat the novels, and ...

As Agathe Robinson moved through the shelves of the famed Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris, where she works, she can feel both grateful for all the voices of writers who surround her, but ...