- Actors: Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Jamie Bell, Su Elliot, Holliday Grainger
- Directors: Cary Fukunaga
- Writers: Charlotte Brontė, Moira Buffini
- Producers: Alison Owen, Christine Langan, Faye Ward, Hannah Farrell, Mairi Bett
- Format: AC-3, Colour, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language English
- Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
- Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.85:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) (US MPAA rating. See details.)
- Studio: Universal Studios
- DVD Release Date: 16 Aug 2011
- Run Time: 120 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (59 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B0053Q9DHW
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 62,641 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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72 of 74 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
This film had been well reviewed before I went to see it, and I expected it to be good. In effect, it exceeded expectations. It is generally true to the spirit of the novel and does not 'mess about' with it at all, though the chronology is changed - we start (very dramatically) with Jane's flight from Thornfield after the aborted 'wedding' and learn about her troubled past through flashback. That works fine. Her time at Lowood is rather briefly dealt with, but the essence is caught and the scenes with Helen Burns are moving. The film is often very beautiful visually, with breathtaking scenes of Jane standing alone at crosstracks wondering which way to go, crossing a huge moorland landscape alone as darkness threatens, making her way through misty trees to post letters (and thereby meeting Rochester), of Rochester hurrying after her over a bridge to propose (a scene echoed rather poignantly later), of Jane's lonely schoolhouse in late evening, of Jane in a darkened room trying to view a framed drawing by candlelight. The film is particularly good in the 'Gothic' scenes by night at Thornfield, where strange sounds - laughter, screams - are heard and Jane makes her way along corridors to investigate ; indeed, the reality of day-to-day living in a place like Thornfield in the mid 19th. century is very well conveyed.
Jane's relationship with Rochester - on the face of it, an unlikely one - is, of course, a central pillar of the novel, and in this film it pretty well works. That it does so is the result of some clever scripting (the script echoes nicely Charlotte Bronte's words at many points) and some very good work from Mia Wasikowska (Jane) and Michael Fassbender (Rochester). Wasikowska has been made to look exactly the part, a plain but interesting girl with an extraordinary face and range of thoughts and feelings expressed, usually, through very limited facial gesture. It's impressive. Young Jane, played by Amelia Clarkson, is also very good. Fassbender likewise does a good job with a complex, outwardly forbidding, tormented character with whom we have to empathise, and we do. Mrs. Fairfax is Judi Dench - almost enough said ; she conveys exactly the right mix of conscientiousness, loyalty and kindliness. Jamie Bell in the rather ungrateful role of St. John Rivers - good to the point of obsession and emotionally colourblind - is fine. This all works well.
I'm trying to think if there was anything I didn't like about the film, but I don't think there was. Of course it could have been done in a different way at all sorts of points, and indeed it has in the many previous adaptations, some very good. But I think this is an intelligent and compelling film which most people would greatly enjoy. I did.
Jane's relationship with Rochester - on the face of it, an unlikely one - is, of course, a central pillar of the novel, and in this film it pretty well works. That it does so is the result of some clever scripting (the script echoes nicely Charlotte Bronte's words at many points) and some very good work from Mia Wasikowska (Jane) and Michael Fassbender (Rochester). Wasikowska has been made to look exactly the part, a plain but interesting girl with an extraordinary face and range of thoughts and feelings expressed, usually, through very limited facial gesture. It's impressive. Young Jane, played by Amelia Clarkson, is also very good. Fassbender likewise does a good job with a complex, outwardly forbidding, tormented character with whom we have to empathise, and we do. Mrs. Fairfax is Judi Dench - almost enough said ; she conveys exactly the right mix of conscientiousness, loyalty and kindliness. Jamie Bell in the rather ungrateful role of St. John Rivers - good to the point of obsession and emotionally colourblind - is fine. This all works well.
I'm trying to think if there was anything I didn't like about the film, but I don't think there was. Of course it could have been done in a different way at all sorts of points, and indeed it has in the many previous adaptations, some very good. But I think this is an intelligent and compelling film which most people would greatly enjoy. I did.
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I have to say I absolutely adored this film. It tells the story of Jane Eyre, hired as Governess to a French child in a rather odd Yorkshire household, owned by the mysterious Mr. Rochester. The centrepiece of the story is the development of the relationship between Jane and Rochester, which changes gradually from master/servant to mutual respect and understanding to an impassioned love, and the obstacles that are thrown in their path by Rochester's capricious nature and secret past.
The film works on several levels - the actors do a splendid job of portraying the characters and what passes between them, both spoken and unspoken. Mia Wasikowska is especially impressive as Jane, with her quiet dignity, inner strength and sense of resolve. An ordinary woman, but one whose spell it would be easy to fall under. Also the sense of atmosphere the director has managed to imbue the piece with is quite something. You get a real sense of the loneliness and bleakness of Jane's life, seemingly represented by the stunning landscape of the Yorkshire Moors. You feel the darkness of Rochester's house, the sense of secrets lurking under the surface, the unease in the surroundings. You feel the joy and light when Jane and Rochester finally get it together, and the intense pain as his past prevents their union. It's a great piece of film making, and really does justice to Charlotte Bronte's great book.
5 stars, no hesitation.
The film works on several levels - the actors do a splendid job of portraying the characters and what passes between them, both spoken and unspoken. Mia Wasikowska is especially impressive as Jane, with her quiet dignity, inner strength and sense of resolve. An ordinary woman, but one whose spell it would be easy to fall under. Also the sense of atmosphere the director has managed to imbue the piece with is quite something. You get a real sense of the loneliness and bleakness of Jane's life, seemingly represented by the stunning landscape of the Yorkshire Moors. You feel the darkness of Rochester's house, the sense of secrets lurking under the surface, the unease in the surroundings. You feel the joy and light when Jane and Rochester finally get it together, and the intense pain as his past prevents their union. It's a great piece of film making, and really does justice to Charlotte Bronte's great book.
5 stars, no hesitation.
31 of 33 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I saw this film a couple of weeks ago, but yesterday I went to Cheltenham Literature Festival and I saw the screen writer, Moira Buffini, talk about how she adapted this work of classic literature to the screen. Having now heard how she made the decisions that she did, it has made me want to return to the film to see it with new eyes.
For lovers of the novel, please don't come to this film expecting everything to be the same. As Moira explained, trying to condense a novel of 500 odd pages into a two hour film, you have to realise that some things are going to have to be sacrificed or altered slightly. Also, as the novel is told in the first person narrative style, a screen writer has the unenviable task of puttin into images what is going on internally for the main character. As Moira said, showing a young woman crying in a garden has a completely different feel to showing a crying woman on a moor. Without giving too much away, Moira decided to begin the film with Jane fleeing Thornfield, so that we are then pulled straight into her story. In this way, we see that Jane is a mystery to the Rivers family, but also we see her as being emotionally open to us. Moira also explained why she chose to use so little of the scenes with Bertha that they shot - if you see the film, you will notice that Bertha does not appear very much at all. As Moira explained, Bertha was not known to Jane; she only became fully aware of her existence when she marries Rochester. Also, she wanted to present Bertha as a mad woman, not a monster.
I really enjoyed this adaptation. It is certainly refreshing to see actors of the right age playing the roles of Rochester and Jane. Do not come to this film expecting it to be exactly like the novel - it can't be. But is a damn good adaptation.
For lovers of the novel, please don't come to this film expecting everything to be the same. As Moira explained, trying to condense a novel of 500 odd pages into a two hour film, you have to realise that some things are going to have to be sacrificed or altered slightly. Also, as the novel is told in the first person narrative style, a screen writer has the unenviable task of puttin into images what is going on internally for the main character. As Moira said, showing a young woman crying in a garden has a completely different feel to showing a crying woman on a moor. Without giving too much away, Moira decided to begin the film with Jane fleeing Thornfield, so that we are then pulled straight into her story. In this way, we see that Jane is a mystery to the Rivers family, but also we see her as being emotionally open to us. Moira also explained why she chose to use so little of the scenes with Bertha that they shot - if you see the film, you will notice that Bertha does not appear very much at all. As Moira explained, Bertha was not known to Jane; she only became fully aware of her existence when she marries Rochester. Also, she wanted to present Bertha as a mad woman, not a monster.
I really enjoyed this adaptation. It is certainly refreshing to see actors of the right age playing the roles of Rochester and Jane. Do not come to this film expecting it to be exactly like the novel - it can't be. But is a damn good adaptation.
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