'Explicable to modern audiences'

Screen Rant shares '10 Best Period Drama Movies Of The 2010s, According To Letterboxd' and one of them is Cary Fukunaga's Jane Eyre. Pity about the blunder, though.

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Jane Eyre (2011) - 3.6 - Not Streaming

There have been many great literary adaptations in the movies, and the 2011 iteration of Jane Eyre is rightly regarded as one of these. Based on the famous novel by Emily Brontë [sic], it focuses on the title character after she becomes a governess for the brooding Mr. Rochester.

The movie excels in creating an adaptation of the classic novel by remaining true to the source material while also rendering it explicable to modern audiences. The powerful performances from both Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender are especially notable. (Thomas West)

Tor discusses retellings:

For all the challenges that retellings involve, one thing is always true: When done well, they take a story we’ve always known and make it new again. The Chosen and the Beautiful is one example of this, but it’s not the only one. Chloe Gong’s These Violent Delights sets Romeo & Juliet in 1920s Shanghai, and in addition to being a classic love story, it turns the Montagues and Capulets into Russians and Chinese gangs respectively, fighting each other but also the Western forces looking to conquer Shanghai. Em X. Liu’s forthcoming The Death I Gave Him is an unapologetically queer and Asian take on Shakespeare’s Hamlet, set in a laboratory about a young man searching for the secret to immortality, and Tasha Suri’s What Souls Are Made Of reimagines Wuthering Heights with British Indian protagonists to examine empire, legacy, and loss. For diaspora writers, this sort of reinvention likely feels familiar—haven’t we always known how to arrive in a new place and call it home? (Grace Li)