Based on the novel Lady Susan, by Jane Austen, written c. 1794.
Lady Susan is a young widow who sets her eyes on a younger man, but has a concurrent affair with a married one. Everyone is concerned with the young man's fate if he gets involved with that woman.
Not exactly exciting, but rather a mildly entertaining jigsaw puzzle where all the pieces must fit in the end, sort of. As in all Austen adaptations (and presumably in her own works, only one of which I have read), it all revolves about weddings. Austen's position is very conservative, but fiction is a two-edged sword and the feminist case is easy to make: it is not Lady Susan who is evil, but the situation she is in.
Rating: 57
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