During interviews at the International Film Festival Rotterdam screening of the film, Stillman said that although the literary influences for the film were clearly taken from Jane Austen, the film's cinematographic influences were developed from the Michael Caine and Steve Martin film Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Stillman thought the novel had some good features, but was inaccessible, causing it to be overlooked by filmmakers. In the late 1990s, after he had finished reading Austen's Northanger Abbey, Stillman found Lady Susan was included in the same edition and he became "fascinated" with the story, believing it "was too good not to be known". Unlike other Austen novels, Lady Susan has rarely been adapted for the screen. Stillman hoped to shoot the film in Britain or Ireland. In July, it was confirmed that Stillman was filming an adaptation of Jane Austen's Lady Susan, titled Love & Friendship. In May 2013, Whit Stillman announced his plans to shoot a period comedy. Location filming took place at the Newbridge Estate in Ireland. Sir James goes on to speak fondly of his newfound friend and long-term houseguest, Lord Manwaring, who was invited to stay by Lady Susan, and with whom he shares a love of hunting. Johnson his joy at the prospect of becoming a father, having been informed on the day after his marriage that his new wife is with child. Lady Susan marries Sir James, and Reginald falls in love with Frederica, and the two are soon married. Narrowly missing a departing Lord Manwaring, Reginald confronts Lady Susan, who says they cannot be married after all as he doubts her word and cannot trust her. Lady Manwaring reads the letter which reveals Lady Susan asking her friend Mrs Johnson to welcome Reginald into her house and "keep him there all evening if you can, Manwaring comes this very hour"! Reginald departs in anger and Mr Johnson berates his wife's involvement with Lady Susan (who later says of him, he is "too old to be governable and too young to die"). He says, after Reginald and the servants left, he saw Lord Manwaring arrive and enter the house. Lady Manwaring is suspicious and demands a footman tell her what he saw at the house. She insists her husband is with Lady Susan, but Reginald claims he has just left her, and she is "completely alone" for even the servants have been dismissed. She emerges with Mr Johnson, who says he cannot help her, and in desperation she snatches the letter Mrs Johnson holds, recognising the handwriting. Reginald arrives with a letter from Lady Susan to Mrs Johnson and overhears Lady Manwaring crying. Lady Manwaring appeals to her guardian, Mr Johnson, to confront them. Then, Lady Susan's relationship with Lord Manwaring is exposed when Lady Manwaring discovers the lovers are meeting in private, under cover of her friend Mrs Johnson. When both Lady Susan and Reginald are in London, she seeks to delay their marriage saying society does not yet approve of them (presumably because she is much older). However, Lady Susan wins him over, then plots to punish him for his disloyalty.
He is surprised and tackles Lady Susan and then decides to leave. For example, upon arrival at Churchill, he explains that he struggled to find the estate as he had been looking for "church hill", a church and/or a hill.įrederica confides in Reginald that she does not want to marry Sir James because he is "silly", but she fears her mother's determination to marry her off. Frederica arrives at Churchill followed by Sir James Martin, who is both very wealthy and foolish. Lady Susan's daughter, Frederica, who has been attending a boarding school her mother cannot afford, runs away and is expelled. Reginald says their relationship is not romantic, however, he and Lady Susan soon reach a romantic understanding. When Reginald's father, Sir Reginald DeCourcy, learns of this, he warns Reginald against marrying Lady Susan lest the family name be sullied. Under the influence of the amiable but dull Charles, Reginald agrees to keep an open mind, and soon finds himself enchanted with Lady Susan. Lady Susan frankly discusses her plans during visits to her trusted friend, the American Mrs Johnson.Ĭatherine and her younger brother, Reginald DeCourcy, are aware of Lady Susan's reputation as a determined and accomplished flirt. Cross head to Churchill, the country home of her brother-in-law, Charles Vernon and his wife, Catherine Vernon (née DeCourcy). After being turned out of the Manwaring estate due to her dalliance with the married Lord Manwaring, she and her unpaid companion Mrs. In the 1790s, the recently widowed and relatively young Lady Susan Vernon seeks a wealthy match for her only daughter, Frederica, and a wealthy husband for herself, to renew the state of her fortunes.
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