This kind of slightly somber approach doesn't make for a crowd-pleasing candy, but when taken, the results are much better, as was, for example, the case of the 1995 version of Persuasion. And that same year, Emma Thompson and Ang Lee successfully managed to mask the basic gloominess and subversiveness of their take on S&S in a very sly way. More @Wikipedia
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