Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (Jane Austen a gâché ma vie) is not your average rom-com nor your average dose of literary cottagcore.It follows Agathe (Camille Rutherford), an awkward, aspiring ...

Critics Pick ‘Jane Austen Wrecked My Life’ Review: A Delectable Modern Rom-Com Reassesses the Appeal of Past Love Stories Great novels, like so many French movies, set unrealistic expectations ...

Laura Piani's Jane Austen Wrecked My Life is a beautiful but ultimately generic rom-com starring Camille Rutherford as an unlucky-in-love book lover.

‘Jane Austen Wrecked My Life’ Review: A Writer Confronts the Terrors of Romance and a Blank Page in Laura Piani’s Charming Debut. Camille Rutherford plays a French bookseller who gets the ...

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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 Austen Wrecked My Life Rated R for the kind of discussions of sex you’d never read in Austen, and a little bit of nudity. In French and English, with subtitles. Running time: 1 hour 38 minutes.

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 diet of romantic literature is a recipe for disappointment in real life, argues French director Laura Piani with “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life,” about an aspiring writer who’s convinced she ...

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 ruined by ...

A diet of romantic literature is a recipe for disappointment in real life, argues French director Laura Piani with “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life,” about an aspiring writer who’s convinced she ...