![]() The women spend many hours by the fire at their sewing, waiting foreligible men to drift into their nets, and some of the film's funniest momentshave the mother and daughters quickly composing themselves into a tableau ofdomestic bliss just in time for a man to happen upon them. The youngest, Margaret (Emile Francois), is stillat this point largely interested in tree houses, and hiding under tables in thelibrary. ![]() The middle, Marianne (KateWinslet), is in full bloom. ![]() The oldest, Elinor( Emma Thompson), is no longer in first flower. Itis now the task of the girls to find themselves husbands. ![]() The widow Dashwood ( Gemma Jones) and her girls find themselves tornfrom the life of country gentry and forced to live on this meager income in acottage generously supplied by a distant relative. There is great gossip within the women'ssphere, but with men, the conversation loops back upon itself in excruciatingeuphemisms, leaving the women to puzzle for weeks over what was or was notsaid.Īsthe story opens, the Dashwood estate passes to a stingy male heir, who providesonly a few hundred pounds a year to his father's second wife and her threedaughters. ![]() Whatgives "Sense and Sensibility" its tension and mystery is that thecharacters rarely say what they mean. Ina modern story, the women would have demanded explanations. ![]()
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