52 Films by Women Vol 10. 49. SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (Director: Georgia Oakley)
Pictured : 'Oh my. I can see as far as my finger.' Edward Ferrars ( George Mackay, right) leads the Dashwood sisters Elinor ( Daisy Edgar-Jones , centre) and Margaret ( Bodhi Rae Breathnach , left) for a walk, the latter avoiding her studies, in a scene from director Georgia Oakley 's screen adaptation of Jane Austen's ' Sense and Sensibility '. Still courtesy of Focus Features / Universal Pictures Adapted by Diana Reid and directed by Georgia Oakley, the second screen version of Jane Austen’s 1811 novel, Sense and Sensibility eclipses my memory of the Oscar-winning 1995 star-studded Emma Thompson-Ang Lee version. It is a film that speaks to the current financial fragility of the so-called Generation Z (born between 1996 and 2012), whose education is no guarantee of a good job or a home. It begins with the three Dashwood sisters, Elinor (Daisy Edgar-Jones), Marianne (Esmé Creed-Miles) and Margaret (Bodhi Rae Breathnach) and their mother (Caitríona Balfe) bei...