By And By

This was a very good movie.

The characters were good, and the cast was good. It's worth watching more than once, to notice things, but it's not the sort of thing that lends itself to obsession, either, I think. It's faithful to the speech and spirit of the period, without leaving any reasonable grounds open for tasteless Yankee jokes about the British...it actually makes the Dread Saxons (Mr. Darcy!) quite human. Elizabeth's spirit is shown, without trying to make excuse or 'apology' for her, (or anyone's), human foibles....Keira Knightley does a fine job. And, not least, it makes the story easy to follow, and makes it easy to remember things about the Jane Austen novel that I, like many others, I'm sure, half-read, once upon a time.

And it's a beautiful love story.

(9/10)