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The characters in the newEmma.show off more skin than you might expect from a Jane Austen adaptation.

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But the nudity inEmma.isnt intended to titillate.

occupies a perplexing if ultimately pleasurable spot on the Austen industrial complexs twin axes of faithful/revisionist and realistic/stylized.

At its best, its effervescent.

Emma is a rare figure in the privileged position of not being required to marry.

There are bodies under there, after all.

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