Emily Mortimer

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  The Telegraph

  Don’t believe The Pursuit of Love – not all aristocrats are bigots, buffoons and bounders

  Emily Mortimer’s production of The Pursuit of Love presented her with an interesting conundrum. She was not just bringing the eccentric aristocracy to the screen, she was adapting them from Nancy Mitford’s adaptation, so she was already two steps away. A series such as The Crown is easier to dissect since it is the fictionalisation of real life people – it makes no attempt at reality at all, but does the unforgivable thing of creating cooked up situations for real people to the point that a larg

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  Entertainment

  The Telegraph

  Listen to every song from the Pursuit of Love soundtrack

  For decades now, period TV dramas and films have used modern soundtracks to give themselves a contemporary edge and command viewer attention. The latest example is The Pursuit of Love, Emily Mortimer’s adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s novel that has just launched on the BBC. In using music that is deliberately at odds with the period being depicted, Mortimer is hoping to lend universality to her themes. Here is a track-by-track breakdown of The Pursuit of Love’s glam-rock stomps and incongruous bal

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  Esquire

  Is 'The Pursuit of Love' Accidentally Wes Anderson?

  Emily Mortimer's adaptation of Nancy Mitford's beloved novel is imbued with the same whimsy that has defined films like The Grand Budapest Hotel, Moonrise Kingdom and The Royal Tenenbaums

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  The Telegraph

  Lily James and Dominic West are proof off-screen chemistry always ruins the on-screen action

  Any soul watching the BBC’s new rendering of The Pursuit of Love for a frisson of sexual desire between Dominic West, who plays Uncle Matthew, and Lily James, his on-screen daughter Linda (they were rumoured to have had a brief affair until the tabloids consumed them) should firstly be ashamed of themselves, and, secondly, will be otherwise disappointed. I suspect that at heart Uncle Matthew has shell shock from the war – what would a younger Anthony Hopkins do with the part? – but West plays hi

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  Evening Standard

  The Pursuit of Love review: Lily James is a heroine for the ages in this mischievous Mitfordian delight

  Emily Mortimer’s adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s greatest novel is the best period drama we’ve had in years

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  The Guardian

  TV tonight: Lily James and Dominic West star in The Pursuit of Love

  TV tonight: Lily James and Dominic West star in The Pursuit of Love. Emily Mortimer’s adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s tale of love and passion between the wars begins. Plus: Gods of Snooker. Here’s what to watch this evening

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