The latest screen iteration of Jane Austen’s Emma arrives on our cinema screens next Valentine’s Day with Anya Taylor-Joy leading the way through the pitfalls and the pratfalls of love.

Josh O’Connor, Bill Nighy, Miranda Hart, Johnny Flynn, Mia Goth, Callum Turner, Rupert Graves, Gemma Whelan, Amber Anderson, Tanya Reynolds, and Connor Swindells complete the cast. As you can see from the new trailer there’s a genuine sense of the absurd among the corsetry on show here courtesy of director Autumn de Wilde.

Synopsis

Jane Austen’s beloved comedy about finding your equal and earning your happy ending, is reimagined in this delicious new film adaptation of EMMA. Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse is a restless queen bee without rivals in her sleepy little town. In this glittering satire of social class and the pain of growing up, Emma must adventure through misguided matches and romantic missteps to find the love that has been there all along.

emma movieEnough talking – here’s the trailer.