Jane Austen Wrecked My Life

Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (Jane Austen a gâché ma vie, 2025) is a French romantic comedy you can watch online on iFILM. It's the debut feature from director Laura Piani, with Camille Rutherford carrying the lead.

Agathe works at the famous Paris bookshop Shakespeare and Company and has her head firmly in the clouds, dreaming of writing something great and falling in love the way her favorite novels promise. An invitation to a writing residency in the English countryside sends her chasing inspiration — and lands her in a tangle straight out of an Austen plot. On one side, a sharp, charming Englishman; on the other, her old friend Félix, for whom feelings start surfacing at the worst possible moment. Pride, misread signals and plenty of awkwardness follow.

Piani builds the whole thing as a love letter to books and to the genre itself, with a heroine who keeps measuring her life against Austen and resenting reality for refusing to follow the script. Documentary legend Frederick Wiseman even pops up in a small role. Warm and self-aware, it's made for anyone raised on British love stories who can laugh at the cliché while still falling for it. Stream Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (2025) online on iFILM.