Persuasion

Persuasion

Living with her snobby family on the brink of bankruptcy, Anne Elliot is an unconforming woman with modern sensibilities. When Frederick Wentworth - the dashing one she once sent away - crashes back into her life, Anne must choose between putting the past behind her or listening to her heart when it comes to second chances.

  • Released:
  • Runtime: 120 minutes
  • Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
  • Stars: Dakota Johnson, Henry Golding, Cosmo Jarvis, Richard E. Grant, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Ben Bailey-Smith, Izuka Hoyle, Mia McKenna-Bruce, Nia Towle, Edward Bluemel, Lydia Rose Bewley, Yolanda Kettle, Jordan Long, Simon Paisley Day, Agni Scott, Stewart Scudamore, Eve Matheson, Gary Beadle, Afolabi Alli, Jenny Rainsford, Kate Ashcroft, Ali Ariaie, Janet Henfrey, Sophie Brooke
  • Director: Carrie Cracknell
 Comments
  • sofia36 - 23 May 2024
    Persuasion (2022) Netflix adaptation
    First impression: not as bad as I expected.

    But in all fairness that is because I expected it to be absolutely unwatchable.

    If you love the book you'll probably be annoyed watching this. If you are expecting a traditional classic adaptation you'll be disappointed. If you're expecting a completely modern adaptation you'll also be disappointed. This a weird hybrid of the two. If you can imagine a cross over between Bridgerton and Bridget Jones's Diary and you enjoy that sort of thing you might find this movie entertaining.

    I thought Dakota Johnson was great. She actually looks exactly like I imagined Anne Elliot.

    The production quality is quite good. There was a decent budget for set design and costumes. The cinematography is fantastic. The sound design is very good.

    Of course the tone of the film is not at all like the book. It's overly satirical and that choice is a bit bizarre.

    The actor playing captain W is the absolute worst- he has a permanent expression of boredom and confusion on his face in every scene. He also looks like he is nursing a bad hangover throughout the whole movie.
  • lisafordeay - 15 January 2024
    Not too bad.
    Persuasion is a 2022 period drama and it stars Dakota Johnson,Cosmo Jarvis,Richard E Grant and Henry Golding.

    The film follows Anne Elliot(Johnson sportingna rather convincing English accent),who is living with her snobby family on the brink of bankruptcy.

    When Fredrick Wentworth(Jarvis) the dashing gently that Anne once sent away,crawls back into her life again, Anne must choose between putting the past behind her or listen to her heart when it comes to second chances. Will another dashing gent steal her heart?.

    Overall it wasn't as bad as people say it is. The costumes are good,the acting for the most part was decent,and the story felt like I was watching an episode of Downton Abbey. Dakota is like marmite,you either like her or loathe her. Henry was wasted as his only in the last 40 minutes in this film(as I loved him in Last Christmas as Tom Webster).
  • noodleyyyy - 5 November 2023
    Added to my comfort movie list
    I should start by saying I have been listening to Persuasion on audiobook as I go to bed for the last 3 months and it hasn't failed to lull me to sleep yet. So when I first watched this two days ago I had no expectations and assumed it would work at lulling me to sleep just as well as the audiobook. However, I was completely mistaken and I found myself enchanted by the story and characters that I (as embarrassing as it is to admit) have already rewatched it two more times.

    The breaking of the fourth wall did not bother me, though I don't always love it in movies and shows since I'm usually watching something to get away from the real world and want to be absorbed in another for a while. In this instance I found it charming and insightful for Anne's character development.

    What really swept me off my feet was the lead characters. I loved Dakota Johnson's portrayal of Anne Elliot and Cosmo Jarvis' Captain Wentworth and felt they conveyed the story of love lost perfectly. The emotion and longing in their eyes had me transfixed and when they finally reunited everything felt complete. It's been so long since characters have made me swoon like this but here I am, daydreaming of Wentworth's face when he finally knows Anne still loves him and he sweeps her up for a kiss at long last.

    What more could one want out of a love story?!
  • s-j-p-v - 19 December 2022
    They turned Anne into a buffoon
    I managed to get through about 20 minutes of the film and couldn't take it anymore. I actually liked some of the modernisations in the film - modernising the language was fine, some people in their reviews are cross about casting POC but I don't think that detracts from the film as long as the right people are cast in the roles (and from the brief amount I saw I think that the casting was reasonable). Breaking the 4th wall was an interesting approach - perhaps a bit overused but I could live with it.

    But the thing I really cannot forgive them for in this film was the way Anne was played, and to some extent wentworth. Anne was sarcastic, comedic, an alcoholic... and on several occasions they had her acting like an absolute moron - shouting at wentworth while drunk, unable to find a seat at the dinner table without looking like an incompetent embarrassment. Meanwhile wentworth was whiny, snide and butt-hurt.

    Part of the magic of the original book is seeing Anne's steadfast yet melancholy character, her plain looks, her seriousness due to her bitterness about the past... meet the civility but stiff upper lip of wentworth and the fact that neither knows what is in the other's heart for most of the story. It's not very "millennial" of me I admit, but this version of them gushing their feelings out continuously just cannot jive with the original story and therefore the viewer cannot possibly appreciate why they should be together. I can deal with the rest but changing the entire basis for the couple's regard for each other was just criminal and I couldn't watch anymore.
  • Red-125 - 18 November 2022
    A great novel turned into a bad movie
    Persuasion (I) (2022) was directed by Carrie Cracknell for Netflix.

    When translating a period novel into a film a director has several choices. She can stay with the period costumes and settings, and use the dialogue from the novel. If done skillfully, that will work.

    Another option is to direct in the Clueless mode--make a modern movie "based on" a Jane Austen novel. (In this case, it was Emma.) That's an honorable option, although the movie wasn't all that good.

    A third option is to use period costumes and settings, but transform the protagonist into a modern woman. That just doesn't work.

    Dakota Johnson as Anne Elliot acts well enough, but she is a 2022 woman dressed in Empire fashion. That doesn't work. Director Cracknell tried to accomplish two things--adapt Persuasion and bring it up to date--and she accomplished neither of those things. She made a mess of a novel that really can work as a movie.

    This film has a disastrous IMDb rating of 5.8. I didn't think it was quite that good, and rated it 5.
  • eversweet_silence - 6 November 2022
    What happens when you only read cliff-notes
    This was...awful. There was no chemistry between the leads at all and the story barely followed the actual plot. They made a movie that had no twist or turn, past loves to " let's be friends"??? There was very little feelings of betrayal and they took out the major issue (the fathers attachment to a woman of no class) and the effects resulting in it with the cousin. There was no plot! This movie went from 5 minutes of " this could be good" to a more and more boring rendition of nothingness. Without the hardships and the families drama there is nothing to hope for. Waste of time honestly just don't.