“A Green and Pleasant Land” film series: Sense and Sensibility
January 12, 2008
2:00 pm
(1995, 137 min., rated PG)
Ang Lee directs the eminently sensible Emma Thompson in her own adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel. Kate Winslet plays her more impetuous sister; Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman are their suitors. From grand estate to country cottage, the film follows Austen in seeing landscape as a moral force.
Marvel at the beauty of the British landscape so well represented by Constable, Turner, Gainsborough, and other Manton Collection masterpieces during the "A Green and Pleasant Land: Literature and Landscape in Pastoral Britain" film series.
