A pleasant, low-friction bit of romantic fiction, “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life” is the first feature from writer-director Laura Piani. In her mid-20s, Piani worked in Paris in the venerable ...

With "Jane Austen Wrecked My Life," writer-director Laura Piani delivers a rom-com tailor-made for Austen devotees that centers on a modern-day echo of "Persuasion"’s Anne Elliot, a woman named ...

But, if Jane Austen does wreck all of our lives just a little bit, this movie believes in the power of shooting for that type of romance anyway. With strong performances and achingly lovely ...

Agathe is headed nowhere until she gets invited to a writer's retreat at the Jane Austen Residency in England. There, she meets — you guessed it — a grumpy attractive man with whom she doesn't ...

Jane Austen didn’t wreck her life, rather, she opened it up to the possibilities that were right in front of her. Katie Walsh is a Tribune News Service film critic.

Critic’s Pick ‘Jane Austen Wrecked My Life’ Review: It’s Not Me, It’s Jane A modern heroine learns about love, and a whole lot more, at a writing residency.

Repressed passions, thwarted ambitions and Empire-waisted gowns aren’t just Regency-era relics in “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life,” a low-tonnage pleasure bomb aimed straight at anyone who ...

With ample charm, Piani fashions a film that is both an ode to the 19th century literary figure and a love letter to writing. Jane Austen Wrecked My Life doesn’t reinvent the rules of the rom ...

But while Jane Austen Wrecked My Life certainly qualifies as a romantic comedy, the question of whom she ends up with is kind of beside the point. Don’t worry, choices are made, but the way it plays ...