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Based on Jean Rhys' "prequel" to Charlotte Bronte's 1847 novel JANE EYRE, this haunting and beautiful film explores the mystery of Rochester's first wife, the tragic, attic-dwelling figure from Bronte's novel. When Rochester (Nathaniel Parker) marries Antoinette Cosway (Karina Lombard), a Jamaican woman, their fiery passion and her nightmarish visions of the past drive her to madness and him to withdraw in an attempt to regain his sense of self.
Synopsis
WIDE SARGASSO SEA is based on Jean Rhys' feminist "prequel" to Charlotte Bronte's classic novel, JANE EYRE. Rhys' novel took JANE EYRE as its inspiration, and imagined a history for the mysterious first Mrs. Rochester. The novel is considered both a feminist masterpiece, and insightful in terms of its exploration of the European attitude toward race. On the island of Jamaica in 1844, amidst the political upheaval brought about by slavery's abolition, Antoinette Cosway (Karina Lombard), a free-spirited Creole, is forced to enter into an arranged marriage in order to inherit her dilapidated family's estate. At first she resents Rochester (Nathaniel Parker), her new husband; then, gradually, she falls in love with him. But Antoinette has many secrets that she cannot keep her husband from discovering. Soon the disturbed and suspicious Rochester, affected by the spell of Jamaica's "exotic atmosphere," brings the story to its tragic, and inevitable, conclusion.
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WIDE SARGASSO SEA is based on the novel of the same name by Jean Rhys.
Industry Reviews
"...An exotic and erotic melodrama bearing notable literary pedigrees....[An] engrossing feature..."
Variety - Lawrence Cohn (04/19/1993)
"...The hothouse atmosphere permeates every scene....The story is complete in itself -- sad, haunted, inevitable..."
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert (05/07/1993)
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