‘Jane Austen Wrecked My Life’ Sells to Sony Pictures Classics Ahead of TIFF Premiere
variety.comRebecca Rubin Senior Film and Media Reporter Sony Pictures Classics has acquired rights to “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life” ahead of its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The studio will distribute the film in North America, Latin America, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and on worldwide airlines.
Laura Piani wrote and directed “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life,” which stars Camille Rutherford (“Anatomy of a Fall”), Pablo Pauly (“Three Nights a Week”), Charlie Anson (“Downton Abbey”) and Annabelle Lengronne (“Mother and Son”).
The film is about Agathe, a desperately single woman who dreams of experiencing love akin to those in novels like ‘Persuasion,” “Sense and Sensibility” and “Pride and Prejudice.” She dreams of becoming a writer but instead spends her days selling books at Shakespeare & Company in Paris.
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