Initially quiet and wan and very much in her mother’s shadow, she is soon quietly winning friends and relatives over in a way that Lady Susan, with the responsibility of ensuring both women survive, is simply unable to do.
It can’t, as she has nowhere else to go. Soon Susan’s daughter Frederica (Morfydd Clark) has been expelled from her expensive (fees naturally unpaid) school and turns up at Churchill. Susan is not popular with the Vernons but that doesn’t stop her imposing on her relatives. She heads to Churchill, an estate owned by her brother-in-law Charles Vernon (Justin Edwards) and his wife Catherine (Emma Greenwell). We first meet her leaving Lord Mainwaring’s large country home after engaging in what might be called in polite society a diversion with the married lord. Lady Susan’s sense of urgency is catching, and with the film at a zingy 90 minutes or so, she really has to get her skates on. This is a much pacier film than the physically languid if emotionally febrile adaptations of Pride And Prejudice and Sense And Sensibility that we often get. Together, Beckinsale and writer/director Whit Stillman ensure that Love And Friendship charges along at a cracking pace as Lady Susan drives a coach and horses through polite society. “In one’s plight they say is one’s opportunity” says the hilariously irrepressible and manipulative Lady Susan Vernon (Kate Beckinsale) – a recently widowed mother and like many women in that position in 18th century England, now with no fortune, having to survive on her wit, beauty and the good graces of other men as she searches for wealthy husbands for herself and her daughter.Ĭlick here for the love and friendship 1 minute video review
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