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Wide Sargasso Sea
A prequel to "Jane Eyre." An Englishman in nineteenth-century Jamaica falls into a tortured marriage with a native Creole. When the woman begins to go mad, her husband takes her back to his gothic estate in England, where he locks her in the attic. more
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- Posted: Jun-18-2008
Interesting concept
This is the story of Mr. Rochester's mad wife and how they got together. I only gave this video 4 stars because I like the concept and the story itself was intriguing. The editing wasn't all that great and the screenplay didn't do much for me. I didn't mind that it was erotic. You can choose your...
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- Posted: Apr-16-2008
Would be improved by more character development
I'm a great fan of _Jane Eyre_ but have not read _Wide Sargasso Sea_, though reviewers of the film say the book is better.This could have been an excellent character film, showing how Rochester exaggerated his relationship with his wife "Bertha" to Jane. Was Mason the brother-in-law mad, and...
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- Posted: Sep-04-2007
Nothing to do with "Jane Eyre"
If it were not for the characters who-- in name --resemble Bronte's 'Jane Eyre' ---this movie would barely stir the mild interest of a B movie. Yes, there is landscape and sex and an unsuccessful effort to create depth in characters-- so lets'leave it to that and enjoy the charm of a B movie....
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- Posted: Sep-03-2007
Not Worth the money
I had a hard time figuring out what the movie was about. I'm a Nathanial Parker fan which was the reason for purchasing the movie. I thought the movie was very disjointed. Mr. Rochester (Parker) marries a woman with severe mental problems stemming from her childhood and voodoo.
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- Posted: Jan-13-2007
nice prequel to Jane Eyre
Many reviewers here did not like this, but I found it quite interesting. You get the young Rochester, and this time around his pre-crazy wife is shown completely sympathetically, like a victim of his insensitivity rather than the curse hidden away (that he had to bear due to fate alone). In my...
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- Posted: Jun-29-2006
This film was not faithful to the adaptation of the novel.
There's lots of passion in Wide Sargasso Sea THE BOOK, but it's mostly emotional. It's an extremely multi-layered novel and the work of a true master. The film on the other hand is just your classic, bad 1990s film, beautiful to look at, with lots of skin, languid copulation, heaving bosoms,...
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- Posted: Mar-24-2006
I just returned from Jamaica
I just returned from visiting the island of Jamaica and traveling to the home of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's family estate. Standing on the windswept veranda of the home high on a hill miles from the ocean but from where I could see the blue Caribbean, I was reminded of the scene from "Wide...
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- Posted: Dec-14-2005
I tried, but I really couldn't understand.
For the record I've never read "Wide Sargasso Sea" although I've read "Jane Eyre" quite a few times. I've always figured Edward Rochester was a bad man. Every relationship he had with women before his involvement with Jane ended badly. With one lunatic wife and one dead mistress...Well...I...
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- Posted: Nov-17-2005
Interesting and Haunting Movie
The film opens with an explanation of why the mother of the main character, Antoinette, goes insane thus leaving her in the care of her aunt. Because her mother's second husband is English, her aunt makes the arrangements for Antoinette to marry Rochester.After the marriage, Antoinette falls...
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- Posted: Sep-06-2005
Book-vs- Movie
All right. Devil's Advocate: Jean Rhys' novel is incredibly complex with various narrators and perspectives, and I believe that *any* attempt to translate it onto film would have resulted in disaster.On the other hand, this movie is terrible, I don't even think they were *trying* to make a movie...
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