Love & Friendship

“A lady never reveals her tactics.”

In the late eighteenth century, the recently widowed Lady Susan Vernon (Kate Beckinsale) arrives at her in-laws' estate to let the rumors about her dalliances cool. She wants a rich husband for herself and another for her daughter, Frederica (Morfydd Clark). Whit Stillman adapts Jane Austen's novella with two suitors, Reginald DeCourcy (Xavier Samuel) and Sir James Martin (Tom Bennett), and the story turns on how far charm and money can be bent to a plan.