Jane Austen Wrecked My Life – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

MOVIE OF THE WEEK May 30, 2025: Team MOTW’S Summer Watch List

May 25, 2025June 4, 2025 Jennifer Merin Being Maria, betsy bozdech, Cate Marquis, Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, Jazzy, jennifer merin, leslie combemale, liz whittemore, loren king, nell minow, Pam Grady, Pangolin: Kulu's Journey, Sabdue Angulo Chen, sherin nicole, STORY $ PICTURES BY, The Assessment, The President’s Wife, There’s Still Tomorrow, Timestalker, We Were Dangerous

If you’re looking forward to some summer cinema chilling with some hot movies, here’s AWFJ’s list of ten must see femme-directed femme-centric films for your June-July-August viewing pleasure. Each of the films on this watch list was featured on AWFJ.org as one of our previous 2025 Movies of the Week.For our summer 2025 watch list, each member of Team MOTW selected her favorite of 2025’s featured MOTWs to recommend to you. Representing the diverse preferences and perspectives of Team MOTW members, the list includes titles ranging from romcoms to thrillers to documentaries, each with a compelling new story or a fascinating twist on a classic, a timely and relatably relevant theme, and exceptional artisanship by female creatives. We suggest that you read the original MOTW post for each (the links are included) to get the full array of Team MOTW’s takes on the film.

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MOVIE OF THE WEEK May 16, 2025: JANE AUSTEN WRECKED MY LIFE

May 11, 2025May 12, 2025 Jennifer Merin betsy bozdech, Camille Rutherford, Cate Marquis, Charlie Anson, Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, jennifer merin, Laura Piani, leslie combemale, liz whittemore, loren king, motw, Movie of the Week, nell minow, Pablo Pauly, Pam Grady, sandie angulo chen, sherin nicole

It is a truth universally acknowledged that any story with ties to the witty, wistful brand of romance associated with author Jane Austen must be in want of a swoon-ready audience. And writer/director Laura Piani’s Jane Austen Wrecked My Life — starring Camille Rutherford as an aspiring writer struggling with both past trauma and present imposter syndrome — is no exception, putting a contemporary French spin on the work of arguably the most English of English storytellers.