Louise Watson, writing for Screenonline, felt the film's costume and make-up help "Express the full Cinderella transformation of Austen's heroine. At the beginning the undervalued household martyr, Anne is the wallflower that has lost her 'bloom'. Her loose-fitting costumes hint at how she has pined away given that refusing Wentworth... https://ontopicdirectory.com/listings13105140/persuasion-an-overview