One can wonder if the world needs another Jane Austen film adaptation.

The British upper-class and relationship reviewer who, with humor and impact, turned and twisted the question "money or love", more than 200 years ago.

Whether it's upper - class coterie

or a young woman's thirst for freedom in a world full of awkward rules, her writing is something to scoop out.

When theater director Carrie Cracknell makes Austen's latest novel "Persuasion" (Persuasion), it is the third in a row in 20 years, and she chooses to throw both costumes and correctness in favor of humor.

That's right, I think I personally do not quite understand the exaggerated interest in the British upper class' machinations and clan culture.

Is the interest due to a longing for a clearer class society?

Where the hierarchies are millimeter calibrated and network everything?

I can not help but fantasize about how Jane Austen had written about our time: had she pushed as hard with linked-in and social media?

Puts a stone-rich financial shark against a simple accounting consultant in bitter battle over an influencer's heart?

Dakota Johnson portrays

one of the more mature Austen heroines, Anne Elliot, with a twinkle in her eye and black humor.

As a young woman, Anne was persuaded to dump the handsome sailor she fell in love with, because he had neither the money nor the right network.

For the past eight years, she has spent crying in the bathtub and being a stoic punching bag for her narcissistic family.

Anne breaks the fourth path and introduces herself and her family right into the camera.

She becomes like a natural bridge between the early 19th century and the present, which fits nicely with Cracknell's conscious anachronisms.

For example, she has black actors in roles such as fine ladies and barons.

By no means effect-seeking, only good cast: especially Nikki Amuka-Bird as a parent and liberal Lady Russell.

"What does titles matter

if you have to earn them ?!"

Anne's father is made by an extremely entertaining, snotty Richard E. Grant, and of course "Persuasion" is overall a funny film, a tribute to Austen's ability to dismantle the upper class with quiet irony and gross understatement.

But as a romantic comedy, "Persuasion" unfortunately does not convince.

The handsome sailor reappears (Cosmo Jarvis) and is really so handsome that the bells stop.

As long as he's quiet.

When he speaks, all the expected charisma disappears in polite, monotonous words and the beautiful face can unfortunately not help that the love story itself becomes a sleeping pill.

Romance requires careful casting

, and no matter how much Dakota Johnson's eyes twinkle when she looks at Cosmo Jarvis, it is impossible to hide the wrong choice of actress.

"Persuasion" is still cozy and beautiful to look at with exquisite environments in a yummy, well-thought-out color scale.