Storyline
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Directors
Cast
Jamie Bell, Michael Fassbender, Harry Lloyd, Angela Curran, Simon McBurney, Mia Wasikowska, Ned Dennehy, Judi Dench, Su Elliott, Holliday Grainger, Tamzin Merchant, Amelia Clarkson, Craig Roberts, Sally Hawkins, Lizzie Hopley, Jayne Wisener, Freya Wilson, Emily Haigh, Sandy McDade, Freya Parks, Edwina Elek, Ewart James Walters, Georgia Bourke, Sally Reeve, Romy Settbon Moore, Eglantine Rembauville-Nicolle, Rosie Cavaliero, Imogen Poots, Sophie Ward, Joe Van Moyland, Hayden Phillips, Laura Phillips, Joseph Kloska, Ben Roberts, Valentina Cervi, Sarah Jane Close
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Reviews
90
Village Voice
Fukunaga has made his Jane Eyre an intimate, thoughtful epic, anchored by strong lead performances and the gorgeous, moody 100-shades-of-gray cinematography of Adriano Goldman.
90
Wall Street Journal
Almost everything about Cary Fukunaga's version of the Charlotte Brontë romance is understated yet transfixing, mainly-although far from exclusively-because of Mia Wasikowska's presence in the title role.
80
Fassbender cuts a more prosaic, realistic figure as the tormented, romantic Rochester than did the screen's most celebrated performer of the role, Orson Welles, in the effective 1944 version.
80
The film builds to a shattering climax that works precisely because all involved fully embrace the melodrama. Be sure to bring Kleenex.
75
Fukunaga, son of a Japanese father and a Swedish mother, is a filmmaker to watch. He has reanimated a classic for a new generation, letting Jane Eyre resonate with terror and tenderness.
