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Jane Eyre
Directed by
Cary Fukunaga
Produced by Alison Owen and Paul Trijbits
Screenplay by Moira Buffini Based on the novel by Charlotte Brontë
Produced by Alison Owen and Paul Trijbits
Screenplay by Moira Buffini Based on the novel by Charlotte Brontë
With:
Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Judi Dench, Jamie Bell, Sally Hawkins, Imogen Poots, Holliday Grainger, Tamzin Merchant, Simon McBurney, and Sophie Ward
Cinematography:
Adriano Goldman
Editing: Melanie Oliver
Music: Dario Marianelli
Editing: Melanie Oliver
Music: Dario Marianelli
Runtime:
120 min
Release Date: 22 April 2011
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1
Color: Color
Release Date: 22 April 2011
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1
Color: Color
Cary Fukunaga (2009’s Sin Nombre) has made the best I've yet seen of the twenty plus film and TV adaptations of Charlotte Brontë’s literary classic. Clearly knowing that this kind of film will live and die by the strength of the actors, Fukunaga doesn’t try anything fancy and just allows his terrific leads, Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender, to inhabit their roles to exquisite perfection. Moira Buffini’s adaptation of the novel is also quite special--her cuts to the narrative don’t diminish the story but rather make it feel more immediate and credible. Genuine feelings of love, loss, fear and regret are conveyed with inimitable treatment by these filmmakers who wisely never try to make this into anything more than the good story that it is.