“What actually occurred is beside the point. It’s what people say that matters.” This fallacy is the central driving force of the Regency-set romance “Mr. Malcolm’s List.” Directed by first-timer Emma Holly Jones and based on the novel of the same name by Suzanne Allain, who also wrote the script, the film aims to achieve the same sparkling, social commentary-infused romance as a Jane Austen novel, and very nearly succeeds. 

Set in England in 1818, the film revolves around the titular Mr.

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“Once upon a time,” begins any good fairy tale. Though it too begins with this simple phrase, “Mothering Sunday” is no such fairy tale. Rather than dragons, knights, and princesses, filmmaker Eva Husson offers us a maid, a trio of bourgeois families, and a lush yet ultimately bleak view of post-World War I England. The film marks a great tonal departure from Husson’s last trip to the Croisette, “Girls of the Sun,” her 2018 war film about a female battalion in Kurdistan. 

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