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| BBC 1995 production of Persuasion |
Anne Elliot in conversation with Captain Harville
(Persuasion by Jane Austen)
"I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years & a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you."
Captain Frederick Wentworth in a letter to Anne Elliot
(Persuasion by Jane Austen)
One of the best lines ever in a novel or film, "You pierce my soul."
If you are a Jane Austen fan, BBC production fan, Period Drama fan or in fact just a good film fan, do yourself a favour & get a copy of the BBC's 1995 production of Persuasion starring Amanda Root as Anne Elliot & Ciaran Hinds as Captain Frederick Wentworth. In my opinion it is the best adaptation of a Jane Austen work by far as it does not "pretty" up the actors nor the costumes. It is a grounded & more realistic portrayal of the people and times of Jane Austen. One of my all time favourite films.
"You pierce my soul." I swoon!
Sandy K
[above image via Amazon]
