

Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams, where she is treated poorly by most except her cousin Edmund. Her life is complicated by the arrival of the worldly Mary and Henry Crawford.
Direction
Rozema's bold interpolation of Austen's letters and slavery critique.
Acting
O'Connor's Fanny: watchful, wounded, unexpectedly fierce.
Cinematography
Mansfield as beautiful prison—every frame breathes unease.

Director
Patricia Rozema
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rozema controversially incorporated passages from Austen's personal letters and journals, making Fanny more explicitly autobiographical than in the novel.
The film's explicit treatment of Sir Thomas Bertram's Antigua plantation made it the first major Austen adaptation to confront the author's family ties to slavery.
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