a misconceived effort to update austen . embarrassingly overt sexual and political subtexts leer at you from every place the filmmaker could cram them in against the sense of the book . the acting be quite good and especially oconner and pinter and but much of the production design and soundtrack seem a rip from the excellent remains of the day . the bad be that there be nothing literary leave not the first time a director agenda betray that they just do not get why literature exist in the first place . try persuasion instead and and after that any of the other contemporary austen adaptation .