Pride and Prejudice review — Knightley and Macfadyen are perfect
★★★★★The best of the 17 official Pride and Prejudice adaptations, including the Laurence Olivier version from 1940, this four-time Oscar-nominated melodrama is the perfect package. Deliberately engineered 'for the kids' by the production company Working Title, it's a film that took the populist romantic energy of the homegrown hits Bridget Jones and Love Actually and returned it to the source: Jane Austen. The cast of Bennet sisters are young and credible (Carey Mulligan was making her screen debut as Kitty), their group scenes are filmed with hip Altmanesque overlapping dialogue, while the director Joe Wright's roaming camera gives every exchange an unexpected urgency.
The secret weapon, though, is the chemistry between the Pirates of the Caribbean actress Keira Knightley (at the zenith of her
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