"Every movie version of Jane Eyre still feels like a reunion"

Jane Eyre's DVD release is still on the news:
NOW Magazine (which includes how to find the easter egg included):

Jane Eyre is generally touted as a romance, but this version plays more as a Gothic character study. (...)
The candlelit faces, grand houses and sweeping moors are lovely but always used to enhance both Jane’s sense of entrapment and the Gothic atmosphere.
Director Cary Fukunaga’s commentary is largely dry and technical. There’s a second commentary hidden (Highlight the following text, if you want to know how to find it) in the deleted scenes menu. Highlight “play all” and hit your right cursor: an icon appears. Press enter to hear two of Fukunaga’s film school buddies make mediocre jokes about the movie.(Andrew Dowler)

St Cloud Times:

Another adaptation of the Charlotte Brontë classic that is faithful but brings nothing really new to this popular Gothic romance. This latest version offers technically fine performances by Mia Wasikowska as Jane and Michael Fassbender as Edward Rochester. “Jane Eyre” was released March 11 and earned $11.2 million in the United States and $2 million overseas. (Bob Bloom)

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:

Ms. Wasikowska, who at 21 is closer to the age of Jane in the book, brings a stoicism and quietly stubborn, intellectual and independent streak to the governess. Mr. Fassbender makes a marvelous Rochester, and Judi Dench turns up as Thornfield's housekeeper, Mrs. Fairfax. It's slow, low-key, atmospheric and the ultimate chick flick.

The Portland Press Herald:

Wasikowska surprisingly manages to convince as plain, assuming Jane, a historically mistreated waif employed by the mysterious Rochester (Fassbinder), an alternately intimidating and attractive man with the prerequisite "dark secret."
Stylish and adept, director Cary Joji Fukunaga puts his own stamp on an oft-adapted classic.

BlogCritics:

Although the film actually opens about two-thirds into the novel’s linear narrative, I enjoyed the altered structure of the film. It's an interesting perspective from which to tell Jane's story.
However, I liked far less the way the film shortcuts its way through Jane and Edward’s relationship, making it almost seem as if their love for each other materializes in a matter of days. We should be allowed at least to savor the slow build to their inevitable meeting of mind and heart. For example, there is a wonderful scene in the novel when Rochester appears surreptitiously, interrupting a party, in costume as a gypsy fortune teller. It is a pivotal moment, both in Edward and Jane’s relationship and in introducing a character that will cause the roof to fall in on it. (...)
Despite the extreme compression, the story is still beautifully told, and the performances are first rate. Michael Fassebender broods well as the tormented and world-weary Edward Rochester, and Mia Wasikowsa  is excellent in the role of the plain, but passionate Jane. (Barbara Barnett)

Movie City News:

The magnificent Derbyshire countryside and several grand old mansions are photographed in ways that accentuate the ominous tone of the story and dark mystery that inhabits Thornfield Hall. Indeed, this “Jane Eyre” oozes atmosphere. (Gary Dretzka)

CathNews:

The most satisfying aspect of Fukunaga’s Jane Eyre is that it is truly cinematic, which is to say that it dispenses with reliance on the spoken word, and depends instead on the power of pictures. (...)
And in much the same way that Nastassja Kinski marked as her own the role of Tess in Roman Polanski’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Mia Wasikowska is set to be remembered for her nuanced, low key but quite masterful performance as Jane.
Less successful perhaps is Michael Fassbender as Rochester. His emotional range from rough, harsh, detached, troubled and needy is less assure. (Jan Epstein)

Reno Gazette-Journal:

Fukunga (sic) handles the material deftly, drifting back and forth in time to give viewers a sense not only of Jane’s present but of the events that made her the woman she is. Much credit also goes to Mia Wasikowska, a young actress plucked from relative obscurity to star in several high-profile films over the past few years. Here, she portrays Jane, and it’s her best outing yet. (Forrest Hartman)

High-Def Digest:

The latest adaptation of the classic Charlotte Brontë novel comes with amazing performances from Mia Wasikowska as the title character and Michael Fassbender as her love interest. The film is a stylish and moody character piece filled with romance and the strangely gothic atmosphere the book is rightly celebrated for. From Cary Fukunaga, it's a passionate tale about two lost souls finding equals in each other's brooding personalities. The Blu-ray debuts with excellent audio and video presentations, but a rather disappointing set of supplements. Still, this comes recommended. (M. Enois Duarte)

And Lamellae, Shelly Cartwright, Cinemaseries (in Spanish)...

Dame Margaret Drabble praises Filey in the Filey & Hunmanby Mercury not forgetting Charlotte Brontë's link with the town:

To Charlotte Brontë, it proved a haven, a refuge and a consolation following the death of her sister Anne in 1849. 

The Scotsman reviews Josie Long's show The Future is Another Place in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival:

Like so many of her peers, part of Long's schtick is to deconstruct and examine her act in progress, offering a running commentary on her material and its delivery. Said material includes a short, knowing play about the Brontës that attempts to elicit sympathy for Branwell[.] (Lee Randall)

Bloomfield Life summarises quite well what the average reader of BrontëBlog could feel:

When I find an author I love, I want them to produce a constant supply of new books. To paraphrase the song, "When I fall in love, it should last forever." Unfortunately, some of my favorites have died, or, less forgivably, stopped writing.
As a teenager, I read every book Charlotte Brontë ever wrote. Villette, Shirley and The Professor gave me time to get used to the idea that the author of Jane Eyre would never write again. Every movie version of my favorite novel still feels like a reunion.

The New Labrador Independent thinks that NL is an excellent place to film à la Brontë (whatever that means):

Our weather doesn’t have to be scary though. It can be introspective and moody. Anyone looking to film quiet, pensive, emotional dramas a la Brontë on the Moors need only head to the isthmus. Characters can break their hearts, go mad, and alienate themselves in the mystical wisps and whorls of genuine NL fog. (Adrienne King)

Battle of sexes in The City Weekly:

A few weeks ago my bathroom window decided to exit the building. (...) I waited with bated breath for a big burly man from Hire a Hubby to come and board up my window as night fell. (...) I arrived home one night after another tradie visit and quote to discover this particular house call had also required a stopover in the toilet. No drama. Except he’d left behind a performance car rev-head magazine. (...) If there were such a business as Want a Wife (and there should be), I can guarantee the ladies wouldn’t be leaving behind car mags in toilets. Jane Eyre on the coffee table perhaps, but that’s completely acceptable. (Mary-Jane Daffy)

The Times of India asks:

The love letter, probably as old as the written civilisation itself, is almost extinct. A survey by Britain's National Trust found that nearly 62% of the respondents had never sent a love letter. One in
five never penned a love poem. But more than two-thirds had texted "I love you", in all its abbreviations. Truly, could classics like Wuthering Heights and Anna Karenina be born in an age crackling with social media networks? (Meghna Roy)

Mymcbooks's Blog interviews the author Kathy Brodsky:

Who are some of your favorite authors you would love to dine with? Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, John Irving, Moliere, Jody Picoult, Emily and Charlotte Brontë.

Ashillingburg has designed a Jane Eyre cover.

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