Not only has the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth seen Joe Wright’s Pride and Prejudice back in theaters, the release of newly edited sets of her novels, and annual festivals in her honor around the world, but it also serendipitously coincides with a new Austen-inspired bilingual film, Jane Austen Wrecked My Life. Written and directed by Laura Piani, the film tells the story of an aspiring writer (Camille Rutherford, the César-nominated French actress) who works in the Paris bookstore Shakespeare & Co. Fighting writer’s block and yearning for a love story of her own, she accepts a spot in the Jane Austen Writers’ Residency, run by Austen’s descendants, in England. There, amid Regency-style balls and the moody English moors, she finds herself in a love triangle sprung straight from the pages of Austen. —Paulina Prosnitz