Film Music Reporter

Mark Suozzo is reuniting with director Whit Stillman on the upcoming period comedy Love & Friendship. The film is written and directed by Stillman and stars Kate Beckinsale, Chloë Sevigny, Xavier Samuel, Emma Greenwell, Tom Bennett and Stephen Fry. The movie is based on an unpublished early novella by Jane Austen and follows Lady Susan Vernon as she visits the estate of her in-laws to wait out colorful rumors of her dalliances and to find husbands for herself and her daughter. Stillman is also producing the project with Katie Holly (Citadel) and Lauranne Bourrachot (A Prophet, Sleepless Night). Suozzo has previously composed the music for all of Stillman’s previous features, including Metropolitan, Barcelona, The Last Days of Disco, Damsels in Distress, as well as the Amazon pilot The Cosmopolitans. Love & Friendship will premiere in January at the Sundance Film Festival.