![]() ![]() One sex scene in which the beastly Henry Crawford makes love to Fanny's cousin, Maria Bertram - which does not appear in the book - has already been cut by the American censor so the film could get a PG certificate. ![]() The film, which has not yet been seen by the British Board of Film Classification, will be released in March. Austen websites are buzzing with condemnations of the £6m film, though some fans who saw the preview at the London Film Festival on Sunday night admitted to liking it. Having long fended off claims that Austen was a lesbian - fuelled by the fact that her family burned most of her letters after her death - few are happy that their heroine is being "unnecessarily and wrongly" raunched up for the cinema. They are particularly exercised that a Canadian director, Patricia Rozema, who made her name with magical realist lesbian art films and who admits to finding the book "vaguely twee", has modelled the new, funkier Fanny on Austen herself. ![]() Austen fans, who broadly maintained a dignified silence while Emma, Pride And Prejudice and Persuasion got the TV and big-screen treatment, are not best pleased by the BBC's latest "disrespectful" cinematic adaptation. ![]()
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