![]() "Though not my favorite Austen, I have watched this movie again and again and I appreciate it more with each viewing. ![]() I know I will watch it again and again, just as I read the book again and again." I am very much looking forward to owning this video. More importantly, her Mary Crawford is true to Austen, and with my modern sensibilities, I liked her very much. On the other hand, the actress who plays Mary Crawford is beautiful but her looks are almost spoiled by the awful (yet historically accurate) wig she is made to wear. She uses her looks to portray the Fanny I imagined the Fanny who is the antithesis of Elizabeth Bennet. She is not movie star beautiful, but she has the eyes and complexion of a nineteeth century doll. The actress who plays Fanny Price is especially interesting. At first I was not impressed, but I kept watching it because I am such a Jane Austen fan. ![]() ![]() I saw it on television during a Jane Austen marathon about 5 years ago, and have been hoping to find this video ever since. For it is not a glossy big-screen-adaption which trades Jane Austen's genius for something else. "This version of Mansfield Park is worth 5 stars to me, but it will not appeal to everyone. ![]()
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