Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (Advance Screening)
Event description
Hugely popular at the French Film Festival Aotearoa, Jane Austen Wrecked My Life is being released publicly (14 August 2025) and the Austen Society invites you to an advanced screening!
A French book seller and author at a Jane Austen writing residency - sounds like all our dreams come true.
Plus one attendee will win a free double pass to Lighthouse.
“Jane Austen Wrecked My Life is a romantic comedy for the quiet, thoughtful lovers who yearn for the sincerity of the past."- Jourdain Searles, Roger Ebert
"Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, an amiable new romance written and directed by Laura Piani. Steeped in the filmmaker's love of the writer" - John Powers, NPR
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen has inspired more romcoms than any other author – and nearly all of them feature a modern take on an Austen protagonist, a new Lizzie Bennet or Emma Woodhouse. But this funny and smart French comedy instead gives us a 21st-century Jane Austen. British-French actor Camille Rutherford is terrific as Agathe, an aspiring novelist working in a Paris bookshop who wins a place on a Jane Austen writing retreat run by the author’s descendants." - Cath Clarke, The Guardian
French with English Subtitles, 1h 34m
Tickets for good, not greed Humanitix dedicates 100% of profits from booking fees to charity
