SIMON: Laura Piani's debut feature film, "Jane Austen Wrecked My Life," in theaters now. Thank you so much for joining us. PIANI: Thank you so much for inviting me.

Writer and director Laura Piani attends the Film Independent Special Screening of 'Jane Austen Wrecked My Life' at AMC The Grove 14 on May 05, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.

A pleasant, low-friction bit of romantic fiction, “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life” is the first feature from writer-director Laura Piani. In her mid-20s, Piani worked in Paris in the venerable ...

In Laura Piani's directorial debut, she boldly takes on modernizing Austen and manages to make overused tropes feel new again. Mostly in French, with some English thrown about, ...

Agathe (Camille Rutherford), the charming protagonist of Laura Piani’s pleasant romantic comedy Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, dreams of being a writer.A bookseller in Paris, she spends her days ...

SIMON: Laura Piani's debut feature film, "Jane Austen Wrecked My Life," in theaters now. Thank you so much for joining us. PIANI: Thank you so much for inviting me.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to French writer-director Laura Piani about her new movie, a romantic comedy titled "Jane Austen Wrecked My Life." ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks to French writer-director Laura Piani about her new movie, a romantic comedy titled "Jane Austen Wrecked My Life." ...