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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.
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
Wide Sargasso Sea. Available on iTunes. 1840. Young female landowner Antoinette Cosway is forced to marry Edward Rochester, a despicable and racist Englishman who’s just arrived in the island, to avoid losing her property. But a secret of her childhood erodes their relationship even more.
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.
Jamaica, 1840s. In the untold tale of the madwoman in the attic of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Antoinette Cosway (Karina Lombard) falls madly in love with ...
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.
