Language: English
Program: Cinema of the world (COW)
Director: Robin Swicord
Length: 2007, 35 mm, Colour, 106 mins
Synopsis: "Jane Austen Book Club" revolves around a group of friends who decide to start a Jane Austen book club, aptly named "All-Austen-All-The-Time". The film reveals the lives of an ensemble of present-day friends through the witty prism of their literary heroine. In the group we have: the book club's instigator, Bernadette, a free-spirited fifty-something who has been married six times; her good friend Jocelyn, a dog breeder who has steered clear of marriage so far; Jocelyn's childhood friend Sylvia, whose husband of 23 years has just left her for another woman; Sylvia's twenty-something daughter Allegra, a proud lesbian who nevertheless falls too hard and too often for the wrong women; Prudie, an uptight high school French teacher Bernadette takes under her wing; and finally sci-fi geek Grigg, the only male in the group, brought in by Jocelyn as a potential suitor for the jilted Sylvia. He acquiesces even though he really has a thing for Jocelyn. But Jane Austen is the one who rules supreme in these monthly get-togethers, and the book-club members soon find parallels between the author's work and their own lives.
