'Jane Austen Wrecked My Life' Plays at M.V. Film Center - The Martha's Vineyard Times

'Jane Austen Wrecked My Life' plays at M.V. Film Center - The Martha's Vineyard Times

“Jane Austen Wrecked My Life,” which opens at the Martha’s Vineyard Film Center on Friday, May 30, is not a period piece. It is a lovely contemporary story, part romance, part comedy, that stands on its own, simultaneously enhanced by familiarity with Jane Austen and the numerous movie adaptations of her novels. In this bilingual film by Laura Piani, we meet Agathe (Camille Rutherford) crooning alone as she stocks shelves at the legendary Paris …

‘Jane Austen Wrecked My Life’ Review: A Writer Confronts the Terrors of Romance and a Blank Page in Laura Piani’s Charming Debut

Camille Rutherford stars in 'Jane Austen Wrecked My Life,' Laura Piano's directorial debut rom-com about a bookseller who attends a writers' retreat.

JANE AUSTEN WRECKED MY LIFE, BRING HER BACK, June 2025 Special Screenings

We meet Agathe Robinson (Camille Rutherford) working in a Paris bookstore, struggling both with her dream of being a novelist and her recent lack of a dating history. Jane Austen Wrecked My Life The catchy title proves to be kind of a fake-out, since writer/director Laura Piani's romantic comedy isn't really about being impeded by the conventions of swoony turn-of-the-19th-century British fiction—and settling on what it is about becomes part of …