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” (or, “Jane Austen a gâché ma vie”) is a catchy, provocative title for writer/director Laura Piani’s debut feature, but it is a bit of a misnomer.

“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 ...

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.

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 ...

Masterpiece on PBS‘s latest foray in the romantic world of the Regency era brings us Jane Austen with a twist: Miss Austen delves into the mysteries surrounding the real life author herself.

Because Austen’s prose is so elegant and clear, her wit so sharp, her comedy so dry, her irony so delicious, her observations so acute, her heroines so indomitable, her novels have lived on for ...

Romantic comedies are a dime a dozen. And Romantic comedies inspired by Jane Austen are even more common. In Laura Piani's directorial debut, she boldly takes on modernizing Austen and manages to ...

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 ...

The 18th-century gift that keeps on giving—to biographers, academics, filmmakers, TV producers and, oh yes, readers—Jane Austen has an audience that snaps to attention at the suggestion that ...

Masterpiece on PBS is whisking us back into the romantic Regency era world of Jane Austen, only this time, Jane’s sister Cassandra (Keeley Hawes) is our leading lady. The new Masterpiece show ...

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 ...