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The story is based on the novel of Jane Austen. Fanny Price (Frances O'Connor), a girl from a poor family in Portsmouth in England, was sent to live with her relatives, the Bertrams, in Mansfield Park when she was 10. The Bertrams were a wealthy family. When she grew up, his uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram (Harold Pinter), arranged a marriage between Fanny Price and Henry Crawford (Alessandro Nivola), a wealthy man from London. She kind of loved his cousin Edmund (Johnny Lee Miller) and so she did not want to be married to Henry. Effectively, she was choosing to marry for love (to Edmund) or to marry for wealth (to Henry). Her mother married for love and was as broke as could be. Her aunt, Lady Bertram (Lindsay Duncan), was married to Sir Bertram and lived a wealthy life. What was she going to choose?

The distributor labels the film as the "sister" of Jane Austen's another novel "Sense and Sensibility". Apart from being written by the same author and filmed by the same cameraman and that both stories are about choices in love, I don't find them similar. In fact, I was worried that they were both boring. Before I watched Mansfield Park, I watch the VCD of "Sense and Sensibility". I watched a few minutes of the film a few years ago while waiting to another film in another house of the theater. After watching those few minutes, I decided not to watch the film any more. Since I was about to watch "Mansfield Park" and it was labeled a sister of "Sense and Sensibility", I watched "Sense and Sensibility" again, just to pretend to be a serious critic. It was not bad but was too boring for me. When I watched "Mansfield Park", the feeling is completely different. It was not an exciting film, but it gave me a pleasant feeling during the two hours in the theater.

Frances O'Connor left England to live in Australia when she was 2. Luckily, she kept her British accent and made herself not an Australian Fanny Price (The young Fanny Price seemed to have an American accent, though). In general, she was great in the film. The unconvincing part of her is that she looks above 30 in the film with all the lines near her eyes (She is now 29). Fanny Price is supposed to be in her late teens or early 20s.

The film is being shown in CineArt. So you know it is kind of an art film. If you like English Literature, this is surely not a film to miss.

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