Run time: 132 mins

Daisy Edgar-Jones enters the Jane Austen cinematic universe in this gorgeous new adaptation of Austen’s beloved classic.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that film and television producers will never tire of Austen’s work. Though this time we are speaking not of Netflix’s upcoming Pride & Prejudice, but of her first book, Sense and Sensibility, which was published anonymously in 1811 with the title page stating only that it was ‘By a Lady’.

It is testament to said lady’s enduring legacy and the continued relevance of her stories that the adaptations keep coming thick and fast. The lavish new interpretation follows two sisters, Elinor (Edgar-Jones) and Marianne Dashwood (Esmé Creed-Miles), the former embodying reason, restraint, and practicality (sense) and the latter romanticism, strong emotion and impulsiveness (sensibility). Forced to leave their family estate after the death of their father, they move with their mother and younger sister, Margaret, to a cottage in rural Devonshire.

A classic coming-of-age story, it charts their contrasting experiences of love and loss, and the social and financial pressures of late 18th-century England. This beautiful and faithful adaptation is a sensual delight