5/28/2023 0 Comments Emma watson new movie![]() Other standout characters include Mia Goth, who plays friend/protegee Harriet Smith as even more of a hapless stooge than usual and the incomparable Bill Nighy as Emma's father Mr. She has the (often baseless) self-confidence arising from a privileged, untroubled upbringing, but a journey of self-discovery awaits her, and that's what makes the story. Anya Taylor-Joy is not only a good, distinctively featured young actress but she also *looks* as young as Jane Austen's heroine is intended to be, about age 20. I think it's neither better nor worse than the good 1996 version (the one with Gwyneth Paltrow in the title role) - they both have fine production values and fine casts, just different emphases, shadings of the various characters, and the choices for cuts made to the story to make it fit into a normal 2-hour run time. This most recent version of "Emma" is very nice and certainly worth seeing in whatever format. Anyway: long before there was "Mean Girls" and "Clueless", there was Jane Austen's novel about a good-hearted but manipulative, un-self-aware young woman who has a great deal of learning to do about real people. But there's still nothing to match watching on a big screen with a packed audience of engaged viewers. In the meantime we've acquired a big UHD TV and subscriptions to a bunch of streaming services. As of July we're wondering when we'll ever get to see another. This was the last movie my wife and I saw in the actual theater- back in March 2020 - just days before covid-19 lockdown began.
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