SENSE and SENSIBILITY-Serves up Sensual Austen Scenes on Screen

For those who maintain all Austen's novels blend, I agree. It's not the plots of misconstrued intentions or marital constraints that confine females or their pathos and passions - it's all of them combined. Those who adore Jane Austen's oeuvre - you're sure to swoon for the latest rendition: SENSE and SENSIBILITY on the big screen. "The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!" If much refers to moolah there are matches needing to be made for the fair maidens whose gender renders them subjugated to patriarchal lines that have stood the test of time by law through the mid 20th C amidst the British aristocracy. Oh, the duplicity... "Oh Mr. Darcy" oops, wrong Austen. Although, her stories seems interchangeable, especially between "Sense" and "Pride".  Pride being a recurring meme along with archaic philosophies, such as marriage being the only means to a woman's security and marriages arranged for financial gain or to maintain financial means within familial realms. Marriage for love was deemed a lofty, unpractical if unattainable goal. These are omnipresent in Austen's writings along with other tropes: the silly interfering matron and the imbecilic,  marriageable male. My favorite imageries are the lavish balls from which line dancing originated. The garrulous dialogue highlights etiquette as a facade for deprecation is diverting. And, the devotion amongst sisters is always appealing and heartwarming. SENSE and SENSIBILITY now on the big screen has its handsome cast including Caitriona Balfe ("Outlander") as Mrs. Dashwood, Daisey Edgar-Jones (a British doppelgänger for Anne Hathaway ,"Where the Crawdads Sing") as Elinor Dashwood, George MacKay ("True History of the Kelly Gang") as a convincing Edward Ferrars and the indomitable Fiona Shaw as the dotty, meddling Mrs. Jennings. Shaw here is supercilious in a role where less would've been more and the passionate middle sister Marianne Dashwood is played by Esme Creed-Miles (daughter to Samantha Morton) is convincing as the emotional wrecking ball at the otherwise staid winter ball.  The cinema- tography is sumptuous with idyllic, bucolic scenes and romantic, candlelit indoor shots so as to forgive the choppy editing and overly long, lingering looks. This film earns a big thumbs up from this Janeite and a double thumbs up to the gentlemen who escort their lady friends. The profundity found in all Austen's novels ensure everlasting fame and fans. "There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions." {"Sense and Sensibility")