The director of "Jane Austen Wrecked My Life" was inspired by Austen's ability to be both entertaining and deep.

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 ...

Agathe (Camille Rutherford), the charming protagonist of Laura Piani’s pleasant romantic comedy Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, dreams of being a writer. A bookseller in Paris, she spends her days ...

‘Jane Austen Wrecked My Life’ is an atypical romance as the protagonist’s happiness is not solely reliant on finding love.

A diet of romantic literature is a recipe for disappointment in real life, argues French director Laura Piani with "Jane Austen Wrecked My Life," about an aspiring writer who's convinced she was ...

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Laura Piani's amiable new romance is weighed down by all its allusions and borrowings — and ultimately fails to deliver on Austen's wit.

The Paris bookseller in “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life” likes her men in the Darcy mold, and writer-director Laura Piani obliges.

Camille Rutherford stars in 'Jane Austen Wrecked My Life,' Laura Piano's directorial debut rom-com about a bookseller who attends a writers' retreat.

A diet of romantic literature is a recipe for disappointment in real life, argues French director Laura Piani with “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life,” about an aspiring writer who’s convinced she ...

A diet of romantic literature is a recipe for disappointment in real life, argues French director Laura Piani with “ Jane Austen Wrecked My Life,” about an aspiring writer who’s convinced ...