Recommended by friend and movie student E.
This movie has a home-made feel, but not to the point of being a problem. I felt as if I were in a novel written by a late twentieth century Jane Austen, a high compliment for me to give. (The ironic structures aren't as complex as in her novels, nor is the dialogue conducted in sentences so gramatically so energetic and stately at the same time. But the premium on intelligence and values that make human interactions bearable, meaningful, and pleasurable--using satire and humor as major rhetorical weapons--was reminiscent.) A comedy of manners in a contemporary film that doesn't feel strained,that feels right, seems like a little miracle to me.
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