Movie Review: **^Persuasion, 1995

This is a BBC version of the classic Jane Austin story.  It stars Ciaran Hinds and Amanda Root.  As I watched this movie, it made we wonder how British aristocracy ever married.  First you had to find someone you loved, and then you had to get the approval of your family, which was not always easy.

This story presents the re-meeting of Captain Frederick Wentworth and Anne Elliot, who had fallen in love several years before, but she turned him down as a suitor because of the insistence of her mother that he was not suitable.  Several years later he is more financially suitable, while her own family has hit on hard times, and had to rent out some of their property.  They rented their home  a man who turns out to be the brother-in-law of Mr. Wentworth, and thus the circumstance of their coming into contact again.

The story presents the formality of courtship, and the intrigue of other relationships, and because of these they almost miss each other again.

I love Jane Austen, but must admit this is not my favorite.