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| Anya Taylor-Gay & Bill Nighy |
"Lord, what fools these mortals be," is a quote from Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. But it seems as if director Autumn de Wilde made it her vision for this version of Jane Austen's comedy of manners.
Austen wrote Emma to poke fun at the society people of her time whose lives revolved around banalities and trivialities with little regard or empathy for the less fortunate. But she did it with a wink wink. De Wilde, on the other hand, takes a sledgehammer to Emma and cohorts. In her hands, they are so foolish and narrow-minded that it's difficult to see them as anything but a joke. What results is a one-joke movie.
This period drama is worth seeing only for the exquisite costumes and sumptuous settings and the very rare instances when a character actually resembles a human being.
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