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(e)Book – Love and friendship

  (e) Book –  Love and friendship Full title :  Love and friendship and other early works Author : Jane Austen Score : /10 Year : 1790 (original) ; 2012 (this edition) Publisher : Duke Classics   ISBN  978-1-62012-155-9  // 9781620121559  (ebook)  Pages :  Language: English Jane Austen is best known for her 6 novels, which all have been adapted into tv movies - but after having read Virginia Woolf's short fiction in chronological order, I decided to apply the same for Austen's publications, to better appreciate her growth and evolution in narrative style. So, before reading her novels which were released from 1811 to 1817, in the following order :  Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma,  Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, I decided to go back to her teenage years, reading Love and Friendships, and other early works.
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Movie – Undercurrent (1946)



Movie – Undercurrent

Score : 6/10  
Year : 1946
Director:  Vincente Minnelli 
Cinematography : Karl Freund
Country: USA
Language: English
Duration: 1h56

Writers: Thelma Strabel (story) ; Edward Chodorov (screenplay)

Full cast : IMDB

Middle-aged, Ann Hamilton marries a man she knows little about and grows to suspect that he's planning to murder her.
I really like Katharine Hepburn's choices of somewhat "less glamorous" roles in some of her movies, and her courage wearing trousers (against the societal norms of her period), as she does in this one. She portrays well her character, and her growing sense of dread as well as adopting an obsession of her new husband. 
Over the course of the movie, certain aspects become predictable but the manner in which the plot-lines intersect and arrive to their end destination are less anticipated. 

There are, off course, a few moments in which the societal norms of the day can and may very well make you shudder because of their implications.  

The cinematography is well done, with some attention to lighting - always a good aspect to have in film-noir, to accentuate the drama and attract the eye. 

Acting is overall good,  especially by Hepburn. 

I've watched this movie on a dvd I borrowed at the media library, and I can say that the image and sound quality could be greatly improved (and may have been on a different edition).
Nonetheless, I enjoyed discovering this less known movie which entertained me- especially in its second half, because it has a slow start. 

Starring : Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum, Edmund Gwenn, Marjorie Main, et al.
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