Regardless, the new Jane Eyre is an excellent achievement - surely, the best adaptation of a 19th Century novel, with all the grandiose production design and fussy costumes thereby implied, since Joe Wright's Pride & Prejudice all the way back in 2005, if not longer. Certainly, it is more faithful to the novel as well as a more consummate piece of filmmaking than the 1943 version it does, however, replace Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine with Michael Fassbender and Mia Wasikowska, which is probably to some people's tastes, but I know that for myself, "brooding hero of a Victorian potboiler" is the very first thing I think of when I look at Orson Welles. ![]() The newest film adaptation of Jane Eyre, written by Moira Buffini and directed by Cary Fukunaga, may very well be the best there are many of the things, and I have not seen enough of them to have the authority to guess.
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