EMMA (U)

WHO’S IN IT?

Anya Taylor-Joy (Split), Johnny Flynn (Beast), Bill Nighy (Love Actually), Mia Goth (High Life), Miranda Hart (Spy), Josh O’Connor (God’s Own Country), Callum Turner (Green Room), Rupert Graves (Swimming with Men), Gemma Whelan (Surviving Christmas With The Relatives), Amber Anderson (The Riot Club), Tanya Reynolds (For Love or Money), Connor Swindells (VS.)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Autumn de Wilde (film debut), director; Eleanor Catton (film debut), writer; Tim Bevan (About Time), Graham Broadbent (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), Peter Czernin (In Bruges) and Eric Fellner (The Danish Girl), producers; Isobel Waller-Bridge (Vita & Virginia), composer; Christopher Blauvert (Mid90s), cinematographer; Nick Emerson (Lady Macbeth), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Emma Woodhouse (Taylor-Joy) is a clever, rich and beautiful young woman who sets out to meddle in the romantic affairs of her friends and loved ones…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Jane Austen’s classic romantic comedy is given a brand-new treatment by music video director Autumn de Wilde, and a spark of life by lead actress Anya Taylor-Joy who could not be a better fit for an Austen heroine if ever there was one.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 14TH FEBRUARY 2020

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