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Synopsis. In the wake of Jamaican emancipation, French colonist Annette Cosway falls into poverty and marries racist Englishman Paul Mason. But when Annette's young son dies in a fire started by former slaves, Mason flees to England, leaving his grief-stricken wife and her Creole daughter Antoinette behind. Soon Antoinette learns she must marry ...
- 98 min
Wide Sargasso Sea 2006 1h 25m Drama List Reviews 40% Audience Score 250+ Ratings An Englishman (Rafe Spall) and a Creole heiress (Rebecca Hall) form a relationship in 19th-century Jamaica.
- Drama
Oct 9, 2006 · Overview. Dramatisation of Jean Rhys's novel set in 19th-century Jamaica. The tragic story of the first Mrs Rochester from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre centres on an arranged marriage between a white Creole heiress and a brooding Englishman, who fall in love only to be torn apart by rumours, paranoia and a cultural divide. Brendan Maher. Director.
Duration. 1h 40m. This prequel, set in Jamaica during the 1830s, relates the early life of Antoinette Bertha Cosway, the willful and beautiful young Creole woman who becomes the bride of an English aristocrat and, shortly thereafter, the madwoman he sequesters in "Jane Eyre," Charlotte Bronte's classic gothic novel.
LC Class. PR6035 .H96. Wide Sargasso Sea is a 1966 novel by Dominican-British author Jean Rhys. The novel serves as a postcolonial and feminist prequel to Charlotte Brontë 's novel Jane Eyre (1847), describing the background to Mr. Rochester's marriage from the point-of-view of his wife Antoinette Cosway, a Creole heiress.
Jun 30, 2022 · Wide Sargasso Sea (1993) Director John Duigan brings Jean Rhys' difficult 1966 best-selling novel to the screen. It's a story meant to be a prequel to Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre, surmising what drove the first Mrs. Rochester mad in that novel. In Jamaica in the 1840s, slavery has been recently outlawed.
Although Wide Sargasso Sea is a most poetic film, Mr. Duigan uses his poetic effects sparingly. Full Review | May 20, 2003 Dan Jardine Apollo Guide
