Besides Shakespeare, no author may haunt the screen more than Jane Austen. Her novels, full of heroines who find love and usually a life lesson or two, practically spawned the romantic comedy.

“Jane Austen Wrecked My Life” is a catchy, provocative title for writer-director Laura Piani’s debut feature, but it is a bit of a misnomer. Her heroine, Agathe (Camille Rutherford), may ...

Repressed passions, thwarted ambitions and Empire-waisted gowns aren’t just Regency-era relics in “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life,” a low-tonnage pleasure bomb aimed straight at anyone who ...

French writer Laura Piani tells IndieWire how she used her directorial debut as a modern way into Austen's smart brand of romantic comedy. Many film fans are starved for romantic stories right now ...

A pleasant, low-friction bit of romantic fiction, “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life” is the first feature from writer-director Laura Piani. In her mid-20s, Piani worked in Paris in the venerable ...

Jane (EMŐKE ZSIGMOND). Image Credit: BBC/72 Films/Balazs Glodi By 1814, Jane Austen, aged 38, has had three novels published: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park.

She tries to forget about the accident. She has no lover and no prospects — until she is invited to the Jane Austen Residency to write the rest of her novel. Starring Camille Rutherford as ...

Agathe is celibate by choice. The 30-something hero of filmmaker Laura Piani’s feature debut “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life,” played by the luminous Camille Rutherford, hasn’t so much been ...

A new take on Jane Austen is in theaters this month, contending with both the author and her work. The French rom-com “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life,” from writer/director Laura Piani ...

Born 250 years ago, Jane Austen remains the reigning queen of the marriage plot and, by extension, the romantic comedy. So if there’s something a bit discourteous in the title of writer-director ...