Review by Gary Tooze

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• Audio Commentary with Actress Emma Thompson and Producer Lindsay Doran
• Audio Commentary with Director Ang Lee and Co-Producer James Schamus
• Isolated Score Track
• Adapting Austen (11:18)
• Elegance & Simplicity: The Wardrobe of Sense and Sensibility (3:57)
• Locating the World of Sense and Sensibility (5:42)
• A Sense of Character (8:14)
• A Very Quiet Man (12:03)
• Deleted Scenes (2:44)
• Emma Thompson’s Golden Globe Acceptance Speech (4:15)
• Original Theatrical Trailer (2:08)

• International Trailer (1:55)

• Liner notes by Julie Kirgo

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Description: Blissfully romantic, witty, and shrewd, Emma Thompson’s Oscar-winning adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility (1995) is brought to the screen by director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain). Thompson also stars as the reserved Elinor Dashwood and Kate Winslet as her more impulsive younger sister, navigating a world in which love and money are often distressingly intertwined. They’re joined by the scintillating likes of Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Greg Wise, Gemma Jones, Harriet Walter, Imelda Staunton, and Hugh Laurie, wickedly funny in a small, scene-stealing role. The superlative score by Patrick Doyle is available on this Twilight Time release as an isolated track.

 

 

Rendered homeless and relatively poor by the patrilineal laws that dictated their father's will, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood (Thompson and Winslet) are not exactly the most marriageable young women in a world where desirability is usually conferred by property and birth. Shy, kindly Edward Ferrars (Grant) - favoured by the pragmatic Elinor - is likely to be disinherited should he marry 'low', while solid Col Brandon (Rickman) is forgotten by the headstrong Marianne as soon as popular, dashing John Willoughby (Wise) appears on the scene. First impressions, however, aren't always reliable. While this is hardly adventurous or original cinema, it's most enjoyable. Thompson's screenplay stays true both to Austen's themes (the gulf between romanticism and materialism, the difference between hearsay, opinion and empirical knowledge) and to her delightfully ironic wit. Grant is just Grant (albeit with old togs and deeper stammer), and Rickman sometimes looks a little creepy, but Thompson and Winslet give fine performances ably supported by the rest of the ensemble.

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BOTTOM LINE:
Sense and Sensibility is an amazing film. It's a gentle masterpiece that is so rewarding on re-visitation. The Twilight Time Blu-ray provides as good an a/v transfer for the film as I could anticipate and further value with the commentaries, isolated score, featurettes and liner notes. It's a complete package of a wonderful period adaptation, amazing cast, costumes, scenery and direction - strongly recommended! 

There is a Sony Blu-ray sold in the UK and a German one

and a Polish one and an Asian one