‘Sense and Sensibility’ Gets a New Screen Telling, and Critics Are Taking Notice

A new film version of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility," directed by Georgia Oakley, has drawn a positive notice from a Variety Film critic. The review characterizes Oakley's approach as atmospheric and unpolished, set against the more restrained, precisely calibrated style of Ang Lee's 1995 film. That earlier adaptation, the critic notes, has held its place for more than three decades as the measure by which other Austen adaptations are judged.

With reporting from Variety Film.