![]() However, with last weeks brilliant Northanger Abbey and this weeks Persuasion they have finished on a high. To say that ITV's Austen Season did not start well would be an understatement. Alice Krige was great as Lady Russell, and Anthony Head as Sir Walter Elliot. The supporting cast was brilliant, with Amanda Hale brilliantly playing Anne moronic younger sister. This is my only slight problem with this adaptation. This works well occasionally, but when it is as often as it is in this adaption you become very aware of the camera and its movements, which detracts from the story and the conversation itself. Preferring to move from a close up of one to a close up of the other shot reverse shot as it were continuously. My only slight annoyance with this adaptation was the director's unwillingness to have two people who are talking in the shot at the same time. ![]() Quite often Sally Hawkins looks at the camera, and I felt this worked very well. ![]() Of close ups in order for the audience to recognise the relationships between characters and their feelings.
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