Persuasion
- warm
- measured
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- intimate
Cosy, measured, gentle drama / romance, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
How every film is hand-scored →Anne Elliot was once in love with Frederick Wentworth, a commander in the Royal Navy who was rejected by her snobby parents eight years ago. When the family hits hard times and are forced to rent out their mansion to his brother-in-law, Frederick returns as a captain - but will he remember Anne?
Our read · Persuasion (2007) reads as a cosy, measured, grounded drama · romance · tv-movie entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
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The shape of Persuasion
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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