Wide Sargasso Sea - trailer

As imagined by Jean Rhys, the villainous madwoman in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre becomes an innocent, born into two cultures but belonging to none.

The exotic Caribbean confounds young Englishman Edward Rochester when he arrives in 1830s Jamaica to pursue his fortune. Nevertheless, he finds nothing to fear in beautiful Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway. She eagerly succumbs to his courtship, entrusting him with her dowry and her destiny. In the intoxicating surroundings of their honeymoon house, ecstatic lust turns to suspicion and betrayal as her world and his disastrously collide.

In this passionate and heartbreaking love story, the shadowy character created by one brilliant novelist becomes fully realized in the hands of another. Rafe Spall (The Chatterley Affair) and Rebecca Hall (The Prestige) star in a fresh adaptation that captures all the sensuality, suspense, and nuance of Rhys's masterpiece.

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• Bronte
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• Rhys
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• Spall
• Rebecca
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• drama

[Koschnitzgirl]

@Kimmywibi AMEN!! This story makes be so angry - beyond angry. This is not the Rochester that Bronte wrote - she wouldn't have had her heroine end up with a monster. I wish people would stick with original stories and leave the classics alone - be satisfied with the way the story was written without all this additional garbage. Grrr....so angry.

[TheLeoPanthera]

@Koschnitzgirl Mr Rochester becomes a 'monster. in WSS because he feels so alienated and deceived in the foreign world of the Caribbean. Readers of WSS may pity him as he is pressured into the marriage with Antoinette, he is certainly not portrayed as a monster but as a confused and damaged man.

[ashleydee521]

@Safura1601 Except that it wasn't Jean Rhy's place to give insight into Bertha's life. Bertha is not her character. The only person who can tell us Bertha's story is Charlotte Bronte.

[Safura1601]

@ashleydee521 Noone ruined the characters. Jean simply gave an insight into Bertha's life and story. Whereas Bronte's novel was focussed on Jane's life.



[Safura1601]

iv read the novel!:) Never knew there was a movie on it

[pinderemma90]

@Koschnitzgirl this comment actually proves that you didnt read Jane Eyre properly, Jane 'ends up' with Rochester after he changes and realises his mistakes. Bronte wrote how Rochester locked his wife in an aireless attic, The author of wws, was a creole woman, the same as bertha, she 're-writes' bertha, in order to show an colonising readership what really happened over seas, and how difficult it would have been growing up between two worlds.

[ReindeerOfTheRoc123]

3bertha.

[jessssheheh]

OH! i would have never known it was the prequel to Jane Eyre! thats AWESOME. im glad i read the description hahaha

[1992VoodooChild]

@nadeleter1 same here - people need to get over it, in Jane Eyre the Creole woman Bertha was made out to be the monster. These people need to read the book or realise that Antoinette is a tortured soul, it's not all about Mr Rochester!

[nadeleter1]

this story is not trying to ruin jane eyre, it simply allowing the audiance to realise that there is 2 sides to a story. this story gives the 'mad woman in the attic', Antoinette, a voice and demonstrates why she decends into madness. so i like this movie. i just think of it as a seperate story from jane eyre. so it doesnt make me mad at all.

[123myusernamesucks]

I just finished watching 2006 JE... this makes me a little angry... :(

[abelyss]

Not sure what Rochester is like in WSS, but even if he WAS awful, we kind of knew that, didn't we?  The depth of his remorse in JE redeems him.