"I'm very, very good at screwing up." Sony Pictures Classics has revealed an official US trailer for an indie film titled
Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, a fun romantic comedy from France also titled
Jane Austen a gâché ma vie. This first premiered at the 2024 Toronto Film Festival last fall, and just played at the 2025 Santa Barbara Film Festival, and already opened in France in February. Arriving in US theaters
this May. A desperately single bookseller, lost in a fantasy world, finds herself forced to fulfil her dreams of becoming a writer in order to stop messing up her love life. The film follows Agathe, a hopelessly clumsy yet charming young woman who works in the legendary Shakespeare & Co. bookshop in Paris. She dreams of being writer but also having a romantic relationship like those in Jane Austen's books. Will she be able to pull off both? The charming indie stars
Camille Rutherford,
Pablo Pauly,
Charlie Anson,
Annabelle Lengronne,
Liz Crowther, &
Alan Fairbairn. The film is half in English, half in French – it's spent mostly in England where she goes for a Jane Austen Writers' Residency. Welp this looks very cute and amusing and enjoyable. //
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