Jane Eyre 2011 is still the main focus of Brontë news because of its Australian release:
The West Australian (4 out of 5 stars):
Wasikowska is perhaps prettier than some of the more recent Janes, but she projects a forbidding intensity that clearly separates her from the fashionistas and bimbos Edward normally socialises with and is expected to marry. It is not hard to imagine any man being undone by Wasikowska's "plain Jane".
And while wiry Fassbender doesn't have the barrel-chested Byronic flourish of his predecessors, his every flippant, provocative utterance to Jane reveals a man in a private hell, whose arrogance is a front for a torment that threatens to tear him apart.
Again, the emotional fury forever evoked by the name Jane Eyre is amplified not through melodramatic flourish but a very modern sense of reality, with Fukunaga's camera tracking his heroine almost in a documentary style rather than bathing her in the Gothic shadows of previous versions. (Mark Nazaglas)
ABC's At the Movies:
It looks wonderful, with its vivid location photography of the desolate moors that surround Thornfield, and there are really fine performances from Australian Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender in the leading roles, as well as strong support from a distinguished cast of character actors. Suitably gothic and suspenseful, the film also succeeds as a potent love story. (David Stratton)
Its US/Canada DVD release:
Look at OKC:
But Fukunaga, 34, and his talented young cast bring fresh energy to the often-adapted gothic tale. Every aspect of the narrative is heightened: The mystery crackles with suspense, the romance smolders with sensuality, and the coming-of-age story flares with intensity. (Brandy McDonnell)
Fukunaga’s vision, in concert with screenwriter Moira Buffini (Tamara Drewe), strips the Brontë novel to its dark roots about the physical and emotional travails of young orphan Jane.
The two main protagonists have been given small but significant personality makeovers: Jane is less pious and Rochester is less verbose than in the novel. Wasikowska and Fassbender do such a superb job in their roles, and match together so well, that no one need fear any disservice to Brontë’s everlasting intention: a love story where the woman is the equal to the man.
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Was this trip back to Charlotte Brontë's classic story really necessary? Yes, thanks in large part to Mia Wasikowska, who brings life, wit and purpose to the title character, whose tale of woe takes her to a mansion with a secret and a brooding master, played by Michael Fassbender.
Or its upcoming release in the UK:
Cary Fukunaga has revealed why he cast Mia Wasikowska as Jane Eyre.
The filmmaker is bringing a new take on the Charlotte Bronte novel which sees the young actress star alongside Michael Fassbender and Jamie Bell.
And the actor admits that there are a couple of reasons as to why he cast her in one of literature's most famous roles.
Speaking to Empire magazine the filmmaker said: "I cast Mia as Jane Eyre for two reasons. One was her age. Jane is 18 years old, fresh out of a charity school and forced into a very adult role, and a very adult relationship with a man 20 years her senior.
"And secondly, it was her fire. There’s a tremendous intensity in her performances, and a maturity beyond her years." (FemaleFirst)
A couple of young British actors from
Jane Eyre are featured in an
Independent article about the new generation of British screen talent: Craig Roberts (John Reed in the film):
He's in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo in Jane Eyre, swotting the young governess with a book[.]
and Holliday Grainger (Diana Rivers):
You can spot her briefly in the new Jane Eyre, as one of the Rivers sisters[.] (James Mottram)
More about tonight's Prom on film music and Herrmann's presence in it. In
The Independent:
Herrmann hated the term "film composer", pointing out that many great composers had written for film as well as the concert hall and stage – among them Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Walton. His own output included a Symphony, a Sinfonietta for Strings and a cantata of Moby-Dick. As an Anglophile New Yorker who settled in Britain, Hermann composed an opera based on Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, which for him was "an obsession". Described by one of his friends as "the bastard child of Puccini", the opera lay unstaged in Herrmann's lifetime; he recorded it at his own expense. This year, it has been performed in Minnesota. But it has never been presented in the UK. It is great to see Herrmann featured at the Proms at all in his centenary year, but it is a pity that he has been confined yet again to the "film music" ghetto. (Jessica Duchen)
And another review of Michael Winterbottom's
The Trip in the
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
It is a funny and intelligent buddy movie about two men with similar talents but different personalities, traipsing across fog-shrouded northern England on a wild-goose chase. I've never seen this part of England portrayed so vividly, and the two men - comic actors Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon - offer a running commentary on the history and geography of a landscape so unique that "it could be its own country," while making allusions to Brontë, Coleridge and Wordsworth and eating at four-star restaurants. (Duane Dudek)
Life & Style's Family section of
The Mirror features a family living in Brighouse, West Yorkshire:
Further out is Haworth, which has shops, cafes and a playground. You can go to the old parsonage where the Brontës lived. We also like the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway. (Adrian Monti and Judy Yorke)
Greg King's Film Reviews and
The Co-Op Post post about
Jane Eyre 2011.
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