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Jane Austen Wrecked My Life Is From a Different Century
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It begins amid the dense, cloistered shelves of Paris’s storied Shakespeare & Co. bookstore, but finds romantic entanglement against the damp foliage and dim light of southern England (though it was apparently shot entirely in France). The film presents its protagonist Agathe (played by Camille Rutherford, whom you might remember as the journalist from the opening scenes of Anatomy of a Fall) dancing by herself while working at Shakespeare & Co., stacking books and occasionally smiling at the poetic personals left by customers on little pieces of paper. So, her loyal friend Felix (Pablo Pauly), who clearly carries a torch for her, secretly sends an application on Agathe’s behalf to the Jane Austen Writing Residency, hosted in England by the descendants of the legendary author.
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