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Lost In Austen [2008] | ![Lost In Austen [2008]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Yp3zk0f5L._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Dan Zeff
Actors: Jemima Rooper, Alex Kingston, Lindsay Duncan, Gemma Arterton, Hugh Bonneville
Studio: ITV DVD
Category: DVD
List Price: £19.99
Buy New: £7.38
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Rating:  61 reviews
Sales Rank: 35
Format: Pal
Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Number Of Items: 2
Running Time: 178
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.3 x 0.6
EAN: 5037115282132
ASIN: B0014T7ETQ
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: September 29, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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 Give it a chance September 25, 2008
40 out of 42 found this review helpful
I ignored the first couple TV episodes thinking 'utter rubbish, how can they interfere with P and P'? I was urged by friends to watch the third and loved it! Thankfully I caught up online, it was joyful and my loyalty to the Colin Firth Darcy although not surpassed was tinged with respect for Elliot Cowan's interpretation. This production made me smile and cry, don't view it as an Austin purest but as a slant on a much loved story, just enjoy.
Lost in lust September 29, 2008
31 out of 33 found this review helpful
As a big fan of Jane Austen's books, especially P&P, I would have been interested in any new adaptation. However this far surpassed my expectations - it was deliciously funny, and it was easy to forget the total implausibility of the plot and just lose yourself in it! Colin Firth has always been my favourite Darcy but I have to say Elliot Cowan may actually have edged him out of the running - he was fantastic and absolutely gorgeous with it - the perfect Darcy. I have never wanted to be in someone else's shoes more than in the final scene - lucky Jemina Rooper. Highly recommended.
Against my "better?" judgment! September 19, 2008
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
When I first read about "Lost in Austen" in Radio Times I thought it sounded like an amazingly silly idea. I decided I probably wouldn't bother to watch it. Thank goodness my curiosity got the better of me, I am thoroughly enjoying it and can't wait to see how they get the story back on track---if indeed they do! The overall look of the production is classy and colourful,with some very intriguing new takes on these much-loved characters, especially Mr.and Mrs.Bennett and Lady Catherine. Jane Bennett's decline after her disasterous marriage is heart-wrenching, almost too heavy for the light-hearted comedy of so much of the production. As a life-long Jane Austen fan, "Lost in Austen" has proved to be a very pleasant, unexpected surprise!
How could they??? October 3, 2008
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
My friends and I have loved this. Light hearted, funny and sweet, it's been the best thing on TV for ages. The only issue I have is how they can axe the "Downtown" scene. A tiny line of print on the back of the box tells you some scenes have been edited/deleted but surely they could have come to some agreement with who ever owns the copy right. Poorly edited around the missing scene, plus it was one of the highlights. ITV had better send us out a new DVD if they include it in future!!
A treat October 13, 2008
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
At one point in this lovingly-made, delightful and funny production the invented Austen character Miss Amanda Price, acted with verve by Jemima Rooper, persuades Mr Darcy to play Colin Firth (in that soaked shirt scene so tortured by the pause button on so many VHS recorders for so long by so many female followers) and exclaims 'I'm having a strange post-modern moment here.' It's a telly moment to relish.
What went right with this four-part series? Just about everything.
You have the Pride and Prejudice story intact but endangered by its time-travelling visitor yet the feel of the story is there in a way that no television or film production has captured since arguably its best ever representation, the BBC series (pre-dating the Colin Firth/Jennifer Ehle effort for all its merit) with the Fay Weldon scripted excellence that was the BBC's production in 1980.
Looking just at the, how can I put it, the dramatic 'side' of "Lost in Austen" I think some of the characterizations in this series approach and in a couple of cases even surpass the performances of the actors in the definitive 1980 Pride and Prejudice series. Both excel in their own way and just in case you are at all worried about any humorous tinkering that might 'spoil' the original Austen story then all I can say is please don't be. This series I think appeals on several levels, not least to fans, like me, of the original novel.
Apart from anything else, here we have the best and prettiest ever Jane (Morven Christie) and the best ever Wickham (played by Tom Riley) to name but two from a cast who clearly enjoyed themselves making this series. However, singling out anyone is perhaps unfair because there are very convincing performances all round. The director, too, handles adeptly the original story as if re-telling it to fellow fans but adding some of his own wry "Life on Mars" type jokes along the way. It just works.
The series is a credit to all concerned but if special mention be made then it should be of Guy Andrews who wrote the script giving all its invented P&P scenes a witty and authentic Austen irony.
He also gifts us such lines as "Miss Elizabeth Bennet has just lent me her mobile..."
Miss Amanda Price's expression as she delivers this deadpan line is a treat.
So is this series.
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