Is another version of Austen’s ‘Emma’ worth your time? Yes.
How fitting that a new movie version of Jane Austen’s “Emma” should appear around Valentine’s Day. I don’t mean to trivialize Austen, whose comprehension of the human comedy went far beyond greeting card platitudes. But she might well have approved of the timing, if only because “Emma” is one of her most ardent tributes to love’s dizzying permutations.
Directed by Autumn de Wilde, in her feature debut, and
