Written and directed by Laura Piani, Jane Austen Wrecked My Life isn’t quite as playful a film as its title suggests. But ...

Camille Rutherford plays a French bookseller who gets the opportunity of a lifetime to attend a writing residency named after her favorite author.

The Paris bookseller in “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life” likes her men in the Darcy mold, and writer-director Laura Piani obliges.

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 ...

Do the French do irony? Well, was Astérix a Gaul? Obviously they do, and do it pretty well to judge by many of their movies down the decades.

Some of “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life” takes place at Shakespeare and Company, the longtime independent bookstore on Paris’ ...

Jane Austen Wrecked My Life Review. Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (2024) Film Review, a movie written and directed by Laura ...

Agathe is celibate by choice. The 30-something hero of filmmaker Laura Piani’s feature debut “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life,” ...

There’s also John (Chris Evans), Lucy’s ex-boyfriend who, at almost 40 years old, is still an aspiring theatre actor who mostly works as a cater waiter. He lives in a rundown flat with two housemates, ...

Agathe (Camille Rutherford), the charming protagonist of Laura Piani’s pleasant romantic comedy Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, dreams of being a writer. A bookseller in Paris, she spends her days ...

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 is a charming but flawed new romantic comedy that features a winning performance from lead ...