THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB 2007

director: Robin Swicord, based on "The Jane Austen Book Club" by Karen Joy Fowler,

cast: Maria Bello, Emily Blunt, Kathy Baker,...

The story: The Jane Austen Book Club plays in central California. It consists of six friends who live their live through the prism of their literary heroine: six book club members, six Austen books, six interwoven story lines about marriage, friendship, romantic entanglements, position, and social manners over six months in Sacramento. The stories written by Jane Austen become alive through these six characters.

“The set decorator, Meg Everist, would do things like leave a basket of unfolded laundry on a counter that you couldn’t even see in the shot—but the actors could see it and it brought their characters’ reality to life a bit more. It’s a pet peeve of mine when movie characters live in houses and dress in clothes that are ridiculously beyond their means. I sat down with the costume designer, Johnetta Boone, and figured out where each of these characters would really shop, and that’s where Johnetta bought their clothes. If you’re a schoolteacher like Prudie, you may have style but you sure don’t have a lot of money," director Robin Swicord.

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Johnetta Boone (costumes) studied first at Washington D.C.’s Duke Ellington School for Performing Arts, then at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York where Edith Head became her inspiration for her future career in film costuming. Since 25-years she works as a costume designer in the still photography, television, commercial, and film. She has designed a full spectrum of costume looks, from the ‘40s-inspired glamour of The Notebook to the Little League story Mickey and the boxing drama The Contender. She has designed for Sam Shepard, John Malkovich, Joan Allen and Rachel McAdams.

photo: The Jane Austen Book Club © Sony Pictures Releasing GmbH.
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