Pride & Prejudice (DVD Series 1995)

by Simon Langton (Director)

Other authorsAlison Steadman (Actor), Colin Firth (Actor), Susannah Harker (Actor), Julia Sawalha (Actor), Jennifer Ehle (Actor), Benjamin Whitrow (Actor)

DVD, 1995, 2016

Status

Available

Call number

791.4372

Collection

Outreach Library Services - Hekkla Rosseau Muskoka

Publication

Lionsgate (2014), Edition: O-ring

Description

The story of lively and rebellious Elizabeth, one of five unmarried daughters living in the countryside of 19th century England, in a world where an advantageous marriage is a woman's sole occupation.

Media reviews

New Yorker

The BBC’s new serial has been touted in the press as revealing the latent ‘sensuality’ of Jane Austen’s world; naturally it reveals much more about the blatant sensuality of our own. Austen, after all, is notoriously cerebral – a resolute niggard in her descriptive dealings with food,

clothes, animals, children, weather, and landscape. But we in the 1990s will not have it so... The ensemble players are led by Alison Steadman. Some dull dogs have found her Mrs Bennet too broad, too Dickensian, but in fact she establishes a miraculous equipoise between bitterness and boiling vulgarity (and this balance is stabilised by clear traces of her past allure)... The sensualism imported by Davies and Langton brings one unarguable gain: all those creamy, dreamy scenes in the bedroom shared by Elizabeth and Jane, with the candles lit and the hair down, make us feel the crucial heaviness of their sisterly love.

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User reviews

LibraryThing member LisaMaria_C

This is the Austen adaptation that led to a revival, one might even say a craze--and it made Colin Firth, the Darcy, a star. I loved Jane Austen well before I ever watched this miniseries, and I thought it did wonderfully by her. Just about every member of the cast was pitch perfect. Parts of this

made me burst into wild laughter (particularly the whole scene where Mary plays and sings accompanied by a howling dog) and parts moved me to tears--and most definitely wide smiles.

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LibraryThing member comfypants

A young woman meets a snobbish gentleman.

This type of romance is just not my thing. It's good for what it is, but not nearly as good as I'd expected from its reputation as one of the best TV series of all time.

Concept: C
Story: B
Characters: B
Dialog: B
Pacing: B
Cinematography: C
Special effects/design:

B
Acting: B
Music: C

Enjoyment: C plus

GPA: 2.6/4

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LibraryThing member fuzzi

I have read the book, and watched this production, and have to say the casting, acting, production...everything is excellent. This is probably one of my favorite videos, or at least in the top five. I never tire of watching it.

LibraryThing member datrappert

Not sure why I should enjoy watching these Jane Austen films so much with my wife and daughter. Perhaps it's that the stories and settings are interesting. Ehle and Firth are memorable here, making this superior to the Keira Knightley version. But much longer....

LibraryThing member Eurekas

My favorite performance of this classic.

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