Sense and Sensibility review: This moody, modern Austen is just what the new gen is yearning for

Oakley takes a loose and earthy approach: the sisters lie in fields, run through forests and wear their hair down (not at all in the style of the time period or of Ang Lee’s beloved 1995 version). That film, of course, starred Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman, and while theirs are pretty big shoes to fill, this new cast manages it with ease. MacKay, for example, is a more reserved Edward compared to Hugh Grant’s bumbling, floppy-haired version, and conveys such longing for Edgar-Jones’s similarly reserved Elinor. Assisted by Roger Goula’s swoony, stirring score, the film…

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