The top 10 adaptations of Jane Austen

His work, which has become one of the great sources of Anglo-Saxon fiction, has not only produced cinema classics, but plenty of lovely, more or less romantic, refined and pastoral moments. The proof.

10. Love at first sight in Bollywood (2004) by Gurinder Chadha

The main thing is in the title – in English, Bride & Prejudice. The classic is transposed into contemporary India, with all that this entails of convoluted choreography and comedy of manners. Is there still a need to prove the modernity of the original material?

9. Persuasion (2007) by Adrian Shergold

Jane Austen: a bottomless pit for British TV. In 2007, the ITV1 channel struck with a secret weapon: Sally Hawkins, pre-success of Be Happy (2008), in the role of Anne Elliot, an “old maid” whose former fiancé returns from the war crowned with glory. Unstoppable……