Laura Piani's Jane Austen Wrecked My Life is more than just a great rom-com — it's a funny and moving portrait of grief, writer's block, and a woman learning to move forward. Alex Heeney digs into how Agathe's emotional arc is mirrored in the film's structure, how the frame composition is key to the film's humour and storytelling, and how Piani reimagines Jane Austen archetypes for 2025. 🎁 Want more films that linger? Grab my free companion guide to a recent hidden gem — complete with a streaming guide, intro video, and prompts to deepen your viewing. 👉 <a href= "https://seventh-row.com/guide">Get the Guide</a> <a href= "https://seventh-row.com/2025/05/22/ep-172-jane-austen-wrecked-my-life-laura-piani/"> Read detailed show notes</a>

Laura Piani's Jane Austen Wrecked My Life is more than just a great rom-com — it's a funny and moving portrait of grief, writer's block, and a woman learning to move forward. Alex Heeney digs into how Agathe's emotional arc is mirrored in the film's structure, how the frame composition is key to the film's humour and storytelling, and how Piani reimagines Jane Austen archetypes for 2025. 🎁 Want more films that linger? Grab my free companion guide to a recent hidden gem — complete with a streaming guide, intro video, and prompts to deepen your viewing. 👉 Get the Guide Read detailed show notes

Laura Piani's Jane Austen Wrecked My Life is more than just a great rom-com — it's a funny and moving portrait of grief, writer's block, and a woman learning to move forward. Alex Heeney digs into how Agathe's emotional arc is mirrored in the film's structure, how the frame composition is key to the film's humour and storytelling, and how Piani reimagines Jane Austen archetypes for 2025. 🎁 Want more films that linger? Grab my free companion guide to a recent hidden gem — complete with a streaming guide, intro video, and prompts to deepen your viewing. 👉 <a href="https://seventh-row.com/guide" rel="noopener noreferrer">Get the Guide</a> <a href="https://seventh-row.com/2025/05/22/ep-172-jane-austen-wrecked-my-life-laura-piani/" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Read detailed show notes</a>

172. Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (dir. Laura Piani)

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A weekly film podcast that helps you have a more rewarding experience watching movies by connecting you to the best under-the-radar films from around the world so that you don't have to watch all the movies to watch good movies that expand your cinematic horizons — both in content and form. This is a podcast about those films, the joys and challenges of finding and watching those films, how filmmaking choices affect our experience of them, and the people and places we discover through looking outside the mainstream and beyond the English language. Our mission is to upend the canon to be more inclusive by spotlighting and diving deep into international and independent films by and about women, Indigenous People, LGBTQ+ people, and other marginalized groups. Find multiple episodes on the films of Kelly Reichardt, Céline Sciamma, Andrew Haigh, and Joachim Trier. Become a member to access the full (200+ episode) podcast archive and get early access to new episodes: http://seventh-row.com/join

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