The book is called "Jane Eyre", but when it comes to his many film versions of both Orson Welles in 1944 or Michael Fassbender at this time, ending the actor who plays Edward Rochester often with most of the attention.
This is because the master clutch of Thor field in 1847 Charlotte Bronte novel is one of the romantic hero of literature par excellence, a complex and troubled person who is sensitive, poetic and as Lady Caroline Lamb said so well Lord Byron, "mad, bad and dangerous to know."
Part of a cat-artists who can be a thief, male, Fassbender, and swallows it whole. He is a German-born Irish actor, who is about to break big roles in upcoming X-Men film, the thriller from Steven Soderbergh, and "Prometheus", prequel to Ridley Scott's "Alien". Fassbender is excited not only in his scenes of Mia Wasikowska successes, but more inevitably drawn back to Jane, but this movie.
Bronte romance of a young governess in a classic struggle for equality and independence, as indicated, was filmed a lot of things: a list with a capacity of 18 versions of the film, and nine films. But there is always a director with a flair for drama in five alarm fire in your plot as Cary Joji Fukunaga.
Since his first film, the success at Sundance, the "Sin Nombre", Fukunaga has shown is an intense, visceral film-maker and the love of melodramatic situations. His no-holds-style prevented had more success here than in his debut as the need to work on the edges Bronte narrative provides the right amount of structure present their talents.
Fukunaga A wise choice is made to highlight the natural aspects of the history of the Goths. Thornfield, where much of the action takes place, is an Old Dark House, after all, and Adriano Goldman expert in photography beautifully captures both the spookiness building sails and austere beauty of the countryside of Derbyshire.
Fukunaga has also invested heavily in the physical details of the film, working with his crew, including production designer Will Hughes-Jones, Carlos Probert's artistic director, Tina Jones decorator and costume designer Michael O'Connor to create a same period world where badminton team seems frighteningly real.
Similar attention has also joined the cast, with equally good results, including Judi Dench Thornfield impeccable as formidable housekeeper, Mrs. Fairfax, Jamie Bell, as a Church, obtuse rivers San Juan and Sally Hawkins in "Happy-Go- Lucky "deftly fused with the kind of horrible Aunt Jane, Mrs. Reed.
Wasikowska, Tim Burton's Alice, and daughter, "The children are fine," looks exactly like the heroine, a writer known to be described "as simple and as small as me." Wasikowska it performs well here, but not so much of the book explores the florid recounting his rich inner life of her performance is inevitably limited to a narrow view of his world. And in particular that people are not familiar with the book, do not hamstring the process a little '.
Because the writer Moira Buffini ("Tamara Drewe") have wisely chosen to tell the story is not chronological, as the novel does, but through flashbacks, it is Jane Wasikowska adults whose knowledge we are to first.
Clearly, a determined young woman, if a madman, Jane is shown fleeing from a house in what we see is of utter despair. A woman without resources in the middle of nowhere, the land, wet and exhausted, at the door of a house occupied by two sisters and a brother of the minister of the river San Juan. It's in the film and is discovering what led to this state.
It begins with a terrible childhood, as part of the aunt who does not need it, followed by an even darker period in a charity school, run by people who love to abuse children. Passionate about the truth teller, whose goal is to experience life as a right of someone, Jane hopes for the better when she takes a job as governess to the young rich man Ward French.
The man is Edward Rochester, and from the moment he enters the film on his famous horse stumbling, things take a turn for the better. If the representation of the early years of Jane Veers dangerously close to hysteria, the film takes its foot as Rochester loses his horse.
So convincingly played by Fassbender, better known for his roles in Indian English "hunger" and "Fishbowl" Rochester is fickle, moody and very secure. And yet, almost as much against his will against her the same way, is to appreciate the qualities of others ignored or despised Jane.
Anyone want to divert attention from "the swamp of my mind," Rochester visible energy by the spirited give and take conversations he had with Jane. With his charisma has Fassbender light his costar and himself these junctions sparring once captivating and entertaining, this is how "Jane Eyre" finally ignites.