Film Review: Another Austen favourite hits the silver screen with Persuasion

"It won’t be for everyone, of course, and die-hard Janeites may well swoon away whilst clutching their pearls"
Film Review: Another Austen favourite hits the silver screen with Persuasion

Cosmo Jarvis as Captain Frederick Wentworth in Persuasion

★★★

Persuasion (PG) is the latest Jane Austen adaptation, which stars Dakota Johnson as Anne Elliott, a 27-year-old woman staring down the barrel of the dreaded spinsterdom and still carrying a torch for her first love, the impoverished Frederick Wentworth (Cosmo Jarvis), who ran off to sea when Anne broke their engagement seven years previously.

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