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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.
May 15, 2024 · Australia. Language. English. Box office. $1,614,784 [1] Wide Sargasso Sea is a 1993 Australian film directed by John Duigan, and starring Karina Lombard and Nathaniel Parker. It is an adaptation of Jean Rhys 's 1966 novel of the same name.
Synopsis. A young Antoinette Cosway (Casey Burna) recalls her youth in 1844 Jamaica, growing up with her French-Creole mother, Annette (Rachel Ward), and younger brother Pierre (Dominic Needham). Since the abolition of slavery on the island and the financial collapse of Coulibri, the family's sugar plantation, Antoinette's English father drank ...
Apr 16, 1993 · "Wide Sargasso Sea” (1993) is an adult-oriented historical drama that’s a quasi-prequel to “Jane Eyre.” I say “quasi” because the 1966 novel the movie was based on was written by Jean Rhys 119 years after the release of Charlotte Bronte’s “Jane Eyre” in 1847.
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.
6/10. prequel to Jane Eyre. blanche-2 1 February 2013. "Wide Sargasso Sea" is a 1993 film starring Karina Lombard and Nathaniel Parker. Based on the novel by Jean Rhys, it's Rhys' imagining of the first marriage of Edward Rochester's, before the book Jane Eyre begins.
May 19, 2024 · Wide Sargasso Sea follows the intertwining lives of the characters amidst a backdrop of colonial Jamaica. The cast of the movie includes Karina Lombard, Nathaniel Parker, Rachel Ward, Michael York, Martine Beswick, Claudia Robinson, Paul Campbell, Naomi Watts, and Rowena King. The most popular cast member today is Karina Lombard, Antoinette Cosway.
