Open Air | Pride & Prejudice
A costume drama based on Jane Austen’s 1813 novel of the same name, starring Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen. Featuring the now iconic ‘hand flex’ scene, which some consider the epitome of romance.
Elizabeth Bennet isn’t one to be told what to do. Not by polite society, not by her matchmaking mother, and definitely not by the brooding, hard-to-read Mr Darcy. What starts as mutual annoyance gradually shifts into something far more complicated – and far more interesting.
Pride & Prejudice remains one of the most beloved love stories in both literary and film history. Jane Austen pairs longing and wit with sharp social commentary, exposing the pressures of class, status and expectation under all that empire-waist elegance.
Joe Wright’s 2005 adaptation brought Austen’s world to the big screen with dreamlike cinematography, lush costumes, and one of cinema’s most charged hand touches. Two decades later, the film has since become the defining example of the modern period drama, thanks in no small part to Knightley’s fierce Elizabeth and Macfadyen’s awkwardly magnetic Darcy.