Sense And Sensibility (U)
Cast: Caitriona Balfe, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Esme Creed-Miles, Fiona Shaw, George MacKay, Herbert Nordrum, Bodhi Rae BreathnachGenre: Romance
Author(s): Diana Reid
Director: Georgia Oakley
Release Date: 25/09/2026
Running Time: 132mins
Country: UK/US
Year: 2026
John Dashwood honours a deathbed promise to his late father to take care of his stepmother and half-sisters Elinor, Marianne and Margaret at the family home in Norland. John's wife Fanny exerts her influence to ensure the Dashwood women's inheritance is greatly reduced and she publicly voices displeasure when her brother Edward Ferrars demonstrates a romantic interest in Elinor. Meanwhile, Colonel Brandon earnestly courts Marianne but her eyes are drawn to charismatic John Willoughby.
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Sense And Sensibility (U) Film Review from LondonNet
Director Georgia Oakley goes back to nature for an unsentimental and sincere spin on Jane Austen’s first novel, working from a script written by Diana Reid which will be invariably measured against Emma Thompson’s Oscar-winning screenplay from more than 30 years ago. If Ang Lee’s witty waltz through Dashwood family matters was sun-dappled, swooning and sweet, this next generation edition contemplates affairs of the heart under moody, overcast skies and assiduously avoids replicating crowd-pleasing grand flourishes…
John Dashwood (Tom Brooke) honours a deathbed promise to his late father to take care of his stepmother (Catriona Balfe) and half-sisters Elinor (Daisy Edgar-Jones), Marianne (Esme Creed-Miles) and Margaret (Bodhi Rae Breathnach) at the family home in Norland. John’s wife Fanny (Stacy Martin) exerts her influence to ensure the Dashwood women’s inheritance is greatly reduced and she publicly voices displeasure when her brother Edward Ferrars (George MacKay) demonstrates a romantic interest in Elinor, whom she derides as “a penniless woman”.
Elinor keeps her emotions tightly corseted, unlike sister Marianne, who is unapologetically wild and free-spirited. She denounces caution when it comes to her heart’s fate. “If I’m to fall, I’d rather it be from a great height,” she declares. Thus, when family friend Colonel Brandon (Herbert Nordrum) earnestly courts Marianne, her eyes are drawn instead to charismatic John Willoughby (Frank Dillane). After the Dashwoods relocate to Barton Cottage in Devonshire to escape Fanny’s poison, Elinor and Marianne accept an offer from gossipy widow Mrs Jennings (Fiona Shaw) to accompany her to London for a dizzying whirl through the capital’s social set. One suitor shows his unflattering true colours and Lucy Steele (Ceara Coveney) deliberately breaks another heart by maliciously revealing a secret engagement.
Sense And Sensibility is an assured rifle through the well-thumbed pages of Austen, distinguished by the earthy, muted tones of cinematographer Arnaud Potier, who relishes the flickers and shadows of natural light. The opening image of Marianne lying in a field, listening to distant chirrups on the wind, establishes a visual palette and penchant for pastoral ruggedness that carries through the next two hours.
Creed-Miles is a whirling dervish and her untamed exuberance is a striking counterpoint to the inner turmoil that swirls behind the eyes of Edgar-Jones’s sibling. The actors are handsomely matched. Shaw makes hay with an infectious chortle, scene-stealing with deceptive ease. Male characters are less impactful – screen chemistry between Edgar-Jones and MacKay achieves a polite simmer. My heart is, and always will be, enamoured with Ang Lee’s version of Austen, replete with detours from the source text. Oakley’s version failed to woo me with the same fervour. Neither my sense nor my sensibility came undone.
– Sarah Lee
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