Attention, Austen hive! We have an official release timeline for Georgia Oakley’s buzzy new Sense and Sensibility. This October, we’re riding again for the Dashwood sisters. Gather up ye petticoats and horses accordingly.
The first major adaptation of the novel since Ang Lee’s in 1995, the new S&S stars Daisy Edgar-Jones as the indomitable Elinor, and Esmé Creed-Miles as her sister Marianne. We also have Fiona Shaw flying in to eat the scenery.
Take a look at the new trailer, fresh to YouTube.
Some key takeaways. One: The lighting in this trailer (grainy, cool) calls up 2004’s Pride and Prejudice. Which makes this fan wonder if the rest of that film’s lightly gritty aesthetic is back on the menu. Which begs a larger question, really. Are naturalist Austen adaptations here to stay?
As compared to shinier entries—1995’s S&S, 1996’s P&P mini-series; the Bridgerton universe—Joe Wright’s take on Austenland caught both flack and favor for rendering the Bennets as obviously lower middle class. (Note the frayed hems, and those chickens wandering in and out of the house.) In this new S&S, the Dashwood family—rendered suddenly skint by the patriarch’s demise—likewise look a little rough around the edges. But suitably so.
