“Jane Austen ruined my life”, for Camille Rutherford

“Jane Austen ruined my life”, for Camille Rutherford
“Jane Austen ruined my life”, for Camille Rutherford

Published on January 21, 2025 at 2:32 p.m. / Modified on January 21, 2025 at 6:09 p.m.

2 mins. reading

You will have seen this slender brunette several times over the past fifteen years, most recently in Anatomy of a fall, The Three Musketeers or The Book of solutions, but you have probably never remembered the name of this subscriber to small roles. It’s a bit inexplicable in the case of Camille Rutherford, who in 2013 portrayed an endearing Mary, Queen of Scots for Thomas Imbach, after Stefan Zweig – except that it was a Swiss film, and therefore rarely shown or seen. Here she is finally back in a main role and she bursts onto the screen as a Parisian bookseller and emotionally blocked budding writer, who identifies with the heroine of Persuasiona novel by Jane Austen (1775-1817).

Agathe has lived with her sister and her nephew since a car accident which left them without parents. Bookseller at Shakespeare and Company (famous English-speaking bookstore on the banks of the Seine), she has a close confidant in her colleague Félix, a great seducer on his side, but no lover. Nor even any real desire, in these times of “Uberized” meetings. It’s quite simple, Agathe feels like a foreigner in this century, and perhaps also in this country, she who grew up perfectly bilingual. Félix will rush everything the day when, tired of hearing her sighs, he submits the beginning of a novel (she never finishes them) which earns him an invitation across the Channel to a Jane Austen Writer’s Residency.

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