Sep 24, 2025: Jane Austen Wrecked My Life

Wednesday, Sep 24, 2025
7 pm @ Galaxy Cinemas, Sault Ste. Marie, ON

Director: Laura Piani
France 2024
French/English; 94 min.

As a clerk in the legendary British bookshop in Paris, Shakespeare & Co, Agathe (Camille Rutherford) loves her job. Perpetually single, she hopes to find a romance like those in the novels of her favourite author, Jane Austen. Agathe leaves for a Jane Austen writing residency where she meets the handsome and haughty Oliver Lowe (Charlie Anson) and Agathe’s romantic life takes a stressful, yet strangely familiar, turn…

Premiered at the Toronto Internation Film Festival (2024)

The fusion of repressed love and underlying passion opens the door for the characters to achieve the same breakthroughs as Lizzy Bennett, Emma Woodhouse, and Anne Elliot.. Alan French, Sunshine State Cineplex

It’s a twee, theme park version of Englishness, full of antiques and affable eccentrics. While not entirely without appeal, this is a film without an original idea in its head. Wendy Ide, Observer (UK)