With Love & Friendship, adapted from the novella "Lady Susan," Stillman finally gets his turn to play in Austen’s dollhouse.
One gets the sense that writer/director Whit Stillman has been itching to adapt Austen for a while, given the Austenian undercurrents-class concerns competition between, and for, the sexes the importance of dress and decorum-of his 1990s triptych.
The heroine of Metropolitan (1990) asks this question of a would-be radical who calls Austen "near ridiculous from today’s point of view." Like all good rhetorical questions, the answer is obvious, and has only gotten more so over the years. "Has it ever occurred to you that today looked at from Jane Austen's perspective would look even worse?"
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