There’s a little bit of Notting Hill in Agathe’s vocation of bookselling (shared with Hugh Grant’s William Thacker), though Paris’s famed Shakespeare and Company is a more earnestly romantic backdrop than a bookstore that exclusively sells travel books.

There’s also a bit of Bridget Jones in the tragicomedy of Agathe’s love life, and a sprinkling of Emily Henry’s Book Lovers in the enemy-to-lovers scenario that plays out in a literary world.

Sonia Nair

ABC Entertainment

Jane Austen Wrecked My Life

10 JAN: 3 pm & 7 pm
98 mins – UK –Romantic Comedy
(Some coarse language, sexual content, nudity)

VENUE: MALENY COMMUNITY CENTRE
23 MAPLE STREET MALENY 

Aspiring novelist Agathe (bilingual Camille Rutherford) is unhappily single in her job at the famous Paris bookshop, Shakespeare and Company. After all, she hasn’t had a date in two years. Seemingly out of the blue, she receives an offer to attend a writers’ residency at the Jane Austen Society in England. It transpires that her colleague and friend Felix has secretly submitted her manuscript in the hope it will be the cure to her writer’s block. Instead, the move results in Agathe becoming unwittingly caught in a romantic triangle. Described by one reviewer as having ‘a coziness that makes you hot chocolate on a cold day’, the film features both English and French languages and is written and directed by Laura Piani.

MATINEE SCREENING
Doors Open at 2:30 pm for licensed bar, tea/coffee, slices
Movie Starts at 3:00 pm

EVENING SCREENING
Doors Open at 6 pm.
Movie Starts at 7:00 pm for licensed bar, tea/coffee, slices
BYO nibbles, meals or restaurant takeaway (Tables provided)

 

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