Adirondack Film Presents: Jane Austen Wrecked My Life
Friday, January 9 at 7:00 p.m. — Arts Center Lake Placid
The new hit French comedy, "Jane Austen Wrecked My Life" comes to the Adirondacks on Friday, January 9 at the Arts Center Lake Placid at 7:00 p.m. Don't miss the kick-off to Adirondack Film's 2026 See Something That Means Something series!
"Jane Austen Wrecked My Life" is a 2025 Drama-Comedy directed by Laura Piani shares the story of Agathe. Hopelessly clumsy yet charming and full of contradictions, she finds herself in desperate singlehood. Her dream is to experience love akin to a Jane Austen novel and her ultimate aspiration is to become a writer. Instead, she spends her days selling books in the legendary British Bookshop, Shakespeare & Co, in Paris.
Invited to the Jane Austen Writers’ Residency in England, she must confront her insecurities to finally fulfill her ambition of becoming a novelist and put an end to wasting her sentimental life.
