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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.
Edward Rochester, young, moody, disregarded by his family is coerced into marrying Antoinette Cosway-Mason, a beautiful, innocent girl of creole descent. After the initial passion, whispers of Antoinette's heritage, her promiscuity, and rumours of her mad murderous mother come to drive Rochester away from his wife.
Synopsis. 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.
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Wide Sargasso Sea: Directed by Brendan Maher. With Rafe Spall, Rebecca Hall, Nina Sosanya, Victoria Hamilton. The first Mrs. Rochester recalls how she met her future husband and eventually came to be imprisoned in the attic at Thornfield Hall.
About this movie. 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 her newly arrived groom-to-be, Edward Rochester (Nathaniel Parker) - and awakens sexually in a steamy world of erotic obsession, voodoo and madness. But when the untamed ...
Wide Sargasso Sea. 1993. 1 hr 38 mins. Drama. NC17. Watchlist. Adaptation of Jean Rhys's novel about an arranged marriage between an Englishman and a Creole woman in 19th-century Jamaica. Streaming.
