Beautiful young widow, Lady Susan Vernon (a fabulously entertaining Kate Beckinsale, The Last Days of Disco) visits the estate of her in-laws to wait out the colorful rumors about her that are circulating through polite society. While there, she decides to secure a new husband for herself and also a future for her eligible, but reluctant, daughter, Frederica (Morfydd Clark, National Theatre Live’s Les Liaisons Dangereuses). In doing so she attracts the simultaneous attentions of the young, handsome Reginald DeCourcy (Xavier Samuel), the rich and silly Sir James Martin (a hysterical Tom Bennett in a film-stealing performance), and the divinely handsome, but married, Lord Manwaring (Lochlann O’Mearáin), complicating matters severely. Adapted from Jane Austen’s Lady Susan, this highly anticipated new work from director Whit Stillman (The Last Days of Disco, Metropolitan), is one of the funniest and most gorgeously designed films of the year.