BEIJING, Sept. 18 (Xinhuanet) --After immersing in the bestseller "The Jane Austen Book Club" for years, Robin Swicord brought the complex modern love story of four women and one man to screen on Friday.

After writing the scripts for 1994's "Little Women," 1998's "Practical Magic" and 2005's "Memoirs of a Geisha," Robin Swicord tries her hand at directing with the ensemble drama "The Jane Austen Book Club."

The movie features Maria Bello, Emily Blunt, Kathy Baker and Amy Brenneman and Hugh Dancy, the only man, who meet regularly to discuss Jane Austen's novels. They are ordinary people, but each of them is wounded in different ways. Over the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable ... all under the guiding eye of Jane Austen.

In an interview with Rueters, the director Swicord said she was working on the project at Sony Pictures Classics, which explores Austenian themes.

"I had already spent several years really immersed in the world, not just of the novels, but also of academics who taught the novels," Swicord said, adding that she also invited the book's author Karen Joy Fowler to read the draft of the screenplay.

In another interview, Dancy pointed out that there are two things uncommon about the film , in which a woman directs a mostly female ensemble and a kind of advertisement is made for the reading.

(Agencies)