Jane Austen Wrecked My Life

Indeed, while Jane Austen Wrecked My Life could be described as a romantic comedy, it’s never especially funny, for all the stumbling and bumbling in the manner of Richard Curtis movies like Love Actually …

This is an intelligent, well-directed, well-acted movie that, at its heart, just wants to have a bit of fun.

Modestly scoped, sometimes sweetly dopey, and sincerely moving, Jane Austen Wrecked My Life is a charmer.

Laura Piani relies so heavily on hopeless Bridget Jones clichés — lots of pratfalls — that the surrounding locale eventually takes centre stage.

This funny and smart French comedy instead gives us a 21st-century Jane Austen. British-French actor Camille Rutherford is terrific.

Jane Austen Wrecked My Life tries to revive the genre but ends up proving it passé.

A lovely and enjoyable romantic comedy/learning to be story. Camille Rutherford is charming.

It's always a good start when the romantic couple loathe each other from the get go, and it's no different in this frothy, charming rom com about a booksmart Parisian and an uptight Englishman

It is a truth universally acknowledged in rom-com movies that adding Jane Austen to the mix helps your project.

There are beats here that feel familiar - the whole narrative is an Austen riff, after all - but Piani and her star bring a warm loveliness and occasionally outrageous sensibility to the romance genre.