Jane Austen Wrecked My Life

Falling somewhere between Bridget Jones and Past Lives, this Anglo-French charmer is a classic rom-com with a literary flavour.

Agathe (Camille Rutherford) is a hopelessly clumsy yet charming young woman who works in the legendary Shakespeare & Co. English bookshop in Paris. While she dreams of being a successful writer and of experiencing love akin to a Jane Austen novel, she finds herself desperately single and plagued by writers block. When her best friend (Pablo Pauly) gets her invited to the Jane Austen Writers’ Residency in England, she finally has her Jane Austen moment… and is caught in a very unexpected romantic triangle.

A delectable modern rom-com… The best kind of throwback… fills the regrettable gap left by such feel-good classics as Four Weddings and a Funeral and the Austen-inspired Bridget Jones’s Diary.

Peter Debruge, Variety

Written and directed by Laura Piani, it’s a rom-com laced lightly with Pride and Prejudice overtones, and it’s also a love letter to writing and reading, and to Austen, too. In the end, Jane Austen Wrecked My Life is both pleasantly diverting and sneakily wise.

Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times

A celebration of bibliophilia and cinephilia alike.

Ann Hornaday, Washington Post