An average movie

When I first heard about this project, I thought it became automatically a front-runner for the upcoming Best Picture Academy award. Indeed, after ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and ‘Atonement’, it was yet another high profile adaptation of a classic book once again directed by Joe Wright and starring Keira Knightley so it seemed at the time rather likely that it would be another critical success. However, eventually, it didn’t get much love when it was released. Well, I finally saw this movie and I must admit that I had a rather hard time to care for the damned thing. First of all, instead of giving us a literal adaptation, they decided to go for a rather theatrical approach which wasn’t necessarily a bad idea, the whole thing was as a result visually quite impressive, but I thought it was eventually rather distracting and, at the end of the day, it didn’t add much to the story. On top of that, to be honest, I wasn’t really familiar with this timeless story but I always find it difficult to care for the so-called difficult and convoluted love life of the aristocrats. Still, it was a decent watch thanks to a really strong cast (Keira Knightley, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jude Law, Matthew Macfadyen, Kelly Macdonald, Olivia Williams, Alicia Vikander, Cara Delevingne, Shirley Henderson). To conclude, even though I thought it was rather disappointing, I still think it is worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

6/10