Reviews
The Financial Times
Antonia Quirke
“Several times you consciously think: “This is it – this is what Brontë was getting at.” ”
08/09/2011
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The Times
Kate Muir
“... a gorgeous swoon of a movie, all high Gothic melodrama, just as Charlotte Brontë would have wanted. Mr Rochester’s Thornfield Hall is pervaded by a slanting light from Vermeer and a churning tension, while the cast is the best to take on this classic in years ...”
09/09/2011
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The New York Times
A. O. Scott
“Reader, I liked it ... a splendid example of how to tackle the daunting duty of turning a beloved work of classic literature into a movie. Neither a radical updating nor a stiff exercise in middlebrow cultural respectability, Mr. Fukunaga’s film tells its venerable tale with lively vigor and an astute sense of emotional detail.”
10/03/2011
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The Scotsman
Alistair Harkness
“What is surprising is how vigorous and alive it feels. ”
10/09/2011
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The Daily Telegraph
Tim Robey
“The film lives or dies by its Jane and Rochester, and I’m inclined to say that the Wasikowska/Fassbender duet puts all others to shame”
09/09/2011
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Time Out
David Jenkins
“Fukunaga’s eerily atmospheric adaptation keeps the corset strings tightly knotted while placing this fascinating chalk/cheese courtship against a backdrop of ritualistic Northern English decadence. ”
08/09/2011
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The Observer
Philip French
“[The] reorganisation of the book makes a great deal of sense as it brings out one of the novel's great themes: the way the orphaned Jane is searching for a home.”
11/09/2011
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Empire Magazine
Ian Nathan
“The film sets a forceful Jane up against an unforgiving universe then turns its nose up at going full Brontë. ”
13/09/2011
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The Evening Standard
David Sexton
“Perhaps she's the best Jane Eyre on film, for Wasikowska manages to be both a specific character and completely archetypal, just as Jane is in the novel - that deranged, overwhelming and, it now seems, inexhaustible creation.”
09/09/2011
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The Guardian
Peter Bradshaw
“I can't fault it, and yet I can't quite get excited about it either.”
08/09/2011
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Time Magazine
Richard Corliss
“At times this Jane Eyre wants to be its own fright-night film festival. ”
11/05/2011
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The Sunday Times
Cosmo Landesman
“The film doesn’t draw us into the mystery of what’s going on. It’s as if it knows that we all know the story already”
11/09/2011
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Total Film
Neil Smith
“A bold choice of director, striking visuals and a Rochester to rival Orson Welles’ ensures this doesn’t feel like just one more highbrow period piece or stodgy great-book adap.”
30/08/2011
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The Independent on Sunday
Nicholas Barber
“It could probably have done with just a flicker more fire.”
11/09/2011
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The Daily Mail
Chris Tookey
“Dry, drab and a little dull.”
08/09/2011
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