由著名华人导演李安执导的《理智与情感 Sense and Sensibility》一片，将简奥斯汀描写十八世纪英国女性爱情与婚姻的同名名著搬上银幕。导演通过镜头给我们展示了两对终成眷属的情侣，更是将当时妇女们的日常生活状况、聚餐、舞会和社交等各种场合完美复原，带我们回到那个充满钢琴曲、诗歌和爱情，同时婚姻又被金钱左右，显得格外现实的年代。
　　
这部电影以其紧凑、跌宕起伏的剧情、凄美悠扬的电影配乐、演员们的出色表演，获得了第六十八届奥斯卡六项提名，虽然最终只拿到最佳改编剧本奖，但这是我最喜欢的名著改编电影之一。由英国作曲家Patrick Doyle执笔的原声配乐更是本片的一个亮点，古典悠扬的音乐，配合李安导演独特的镜头视角，精确美妙地传达了剧中每个人物的感情。
Patrick Doyle began his career in film music writing scores for Kenneth Branagh's films -- but he didn't receive his first Oscar nomination until he wrote this one for Branagh's then-wife, Emma Thompson (whose magic touch with the Academy landed her almost annual nominations in the 1990s). Since then, Doyle seems to have joined the small group of score writers who get voted in year after year by the old boys' club that is the Academy's musical wing. However, this is not Doyle's best work -- most of it simply recycles melodic phrases from his previous stuff. Nonetheless, Sense and Sensibility has a pleasant romanticism in its orchestrations, and the vocal solos by renowned soprano Jane Eaglen are quite good.