"Jane Eyre" - a classic in a fresh guise
An impossible love? Jane (Mia Wasikowska) and Edward Rochester (Michael Fassbender)
Is a British literary classic in the hands of an American director with a Japanese last name in good hands? Yes, provided the hands belong to Cary Fukunaga. He has packed Charlotte Brontë's novel "Jane Eyre" into powerful images and found a grandiose leading actress with Mia Wasikowska (the Alice from "Alice in Wonderland"). She plays the strong-willed title heroine Jane, who - 18 years young, poor and inconspicuous - a job as a governess on the estate Thornfield. Quickly she feels drawn to the idiosyncratic host Edward Rochester (also great: Michael Fassbender) - and he to her. So much so that he surprised Jane one day with a marriage proposal. Overjoyed, she says yes, unsuspecting, what dark secret Edward carries around with him ...
The trailer for the movie
