Becoming Jane is a nice little film
Becoming Jane
Julian Jarrold
Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, James Cromwell, Julie Walters
PG
We can’t get enough of Ms Austen, either from screen versions of her costume romances or from versions – real and otherwise – of her life.
This one, with Hathaway as the young Jane and McAvoy as a dashing Irish cad who reckons her writing could benefit from some hands-on experience, is a little charmer.
The emphasis is, alas, on the little. It’s a nice little film but it doesn’t set us alight. It’s a slight little film that merely satisfies without adding much by way of cherries and cream.
The playing is good but much more meat is required on the bones.
3/5
