DakotaJohnson's charismatic performance anchors Netflix's Persuasion.
Persuasion often goes too far in its attempts to modernize a story that, frankly, has yet to lose its timeless appeal. The new film from director Carrie Cracknell is a feature-length adaptation of Jane Austen’s last completed novel, but it diverges from the language and style of its source material. While it maintains its period setting, Persuasion goes out of its way to rework the storytelling of Austen’s novel for 21st-century audiences.
A tale of lost love Persuasion follows Anne Elliot , the daughter of an exceedingly vain and in-debt English lord , who is stuck mourning the loss of a romance that she gave up several years earlier. Despite her various attempts to assure those watching at home that she is “thriving,” it’s clear that Anne’s heartache and yearning for her former suitor, an accomplished Navy captain named Frederick Wentworth , has overwhelmed her.
A lovelorn narrator When Persuasion also leans into the feelings of desire and sorrow that are plaguing Johnson’s Anne, it often shines. A lengthy conversation that Anne and Frederick share after they cross paths on the beach, for instance, ranks as one of the film’s best scenes, and both Johnson and Jarvis’ performances throughout it are simultaneously raw and withholding in a way that feels intensely, painfully honest.
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