Jane Eyre (1996 film)

• Charlotte Gainsbourg: Jane Eyre
• William Hurt: Edward Rochester
• Joan Plowright: Mrs. Fairfax
• Joséphine Serre: Adele
• John Wood: Mr. Brocklehurst
• Fiona Shaw: Mrs. Reed
• Geraldine Chaplin: Miss Scatcherd
• Amanda Root: Miss Temple
• Anna Paquin: Young Jane
• Leanne Rowe: Helen Burns
• Maria Schneider: Bertha Mason

Jane Eyre ( Jane Eyre ) is a love story of Italian director Franco Zeffirelli from 1996 based on the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.

Action

The narrator and main character, Jane Eyre, is a poor orphan. Rich relatives had promised to take care of them after the death of her blood relatives. But the widowed Mrs. Reed and her three spoiled children treated Jane badly and make sure they feel it very clear that she is on a lower social level. Jane is a simple, quiet and intelligent girl with a passionate soul and an inclination to improper directness and eruptions, they come over from time to time. Together with the fact that she sometimes has very vivid dreams, almost visions, she alienates her foster family even more. Tensions escalate at Gateshead, and Jane is sent to Lowood boarding school, which is run by the hypocritical Mr. Brocklehurst. From him Jane is called a liar, of which she is suffering even more than from poor diet and cold. But soon she finds a confidante in Ms. Temple, who venerated headmistress, and wins an older student, Helen Burns, as a friend. Helen Burns is educated, intelligent and very religious. It bears the difficult conditions in the boarding almost stoic, while Jane their anger can sometimes poorly halt. Serve with the calm resignation with which the sufferer from tuberculosis Helen Burns gives to her fate, she dies in Jane's arms, while many other girls of the boarding of a typhoid epidemic fall victim. After this epidemic, and after Mr. Brocklehurst was delivered by the head of the Institute for noised abroad that have become transgressions, the conditions improve there. Jane worked through their diligence a position of trust and remains after the end of their own school years as a teacher in Lowood, she has not left since childhood. It was only when Ms. Temple marries and leaves Lowood, also keeps them there nothing more: it is a ad on, and enters a position as a governess for a French girl at Thornfield Hall.

Blanche Ingram

At Thornfield life begins very quiet. In addition to her work Jane spends the most time with the old housekeeper, Mrs. Fairfax. But everything changes when Mr. Rochester arrives at his estate. Jane and he quickly gain respect for each other, while some nights play strange events, during which several people, including Mr. Rochester himself, are hurt. The viewer remains regarding the backgrounds as well in the dark as Jane Eyre. Mr. Rochester held an extensive confusion in which he pretends to woo the hand of the beautiful Blanche Ingram, an aristocrat from the environment. Jane, who has become clear slowly her love for Rochester, this endures silently at first, but does not consider this for long. She wants to put up with though, to leave Thornfield, when the couple moves in there, but keeps sometime the wait no longer, because apparently no wedding preparations are being made. In a stormy night admits Mr. Rochester Jane, that he with his supposed engagement experiments with Ms. Ingram only had her jealousy want to wake and that it only it was that he loved. He asks her to be his wife, and it eventually manages to convince them that he speaks in earnest. Only then Jane agrees joyfully. The wedding itself is broken in a dramatic scene by a lawyer who proclaims, Mr. Rochester was already married. His wife is insane Bertha Mason, a Creole from Jamaica who live hidden in Thornfield Hall. So the mysterious events the meantime explain in retrospect. In repentance offers Mr. Rochester Jane, still as planned to go with him abroad, and still live with him. But Jane is not willing to sacrifice their moral beliefs and their self-esteem, and even less likely to appear as Rochester's mistress before the eyes of the world. Although Rochester begs her and explained, can not live without her, Jane stands by its position. She flees in the middle of the night and almost destitute of Thornfield, without knowing where they should turn.

St. John Rivers makes Jane in his house

After she wandered for several days, it takes under a false name protection in a Vicar, St. John Rivers and his two sisters. Jane gets along well with them, and soon gets a job as a village school teacher. Finally she leads an independent life in their own little house. When St. John Janes true identity experiences, it turns out, surprisingly, that he and his sisters are in truth Jane's cousin and cousins ​​. Fittingly, Jane inherits also a considerable fortune by an uncle living abroad. Since their newfound relatives have inherited nothing because of an old family dispute, Jane divides the money equally with them. This makes it possible to St. John to follow his true vocation and to go as a missionary to India. He asks Jane to marry him and accompany him there. This offers you the opportunity to win a husband of high moral status, but she knows that St. John does not love in truth. It is in a sense the reverse of the situation in which she had found with Mr. Rochester. Set by St. John under pressure, Jane is on the verge of tune, but at the last minute she hears Mr. Rochester in the wind calling her and feels that she needs to pursue this call. Immediately, she sets out on the road to Thornfield, the only but is still a ruin, abandoned after a devastating fire. She learns that Mr. Rochester has in the fire lost the sight of his two eyes as he tried to save his wife Bertha. However, this fell from the roof and died. Jane goes to him, they reconcile and get married. She writes ten years after this wedding and tells of her first-born son. At the end of her husband recovers part of its vision and can finally see his child. Jane's long search for love and the sense of belonging has finally fulfilled.

Criticism

" Charlotte Brontë's remake of the novel, which is externally conventional and dispassionate as her famous predecessor. It however has the advantage closer to the novel in the design of the main role, and finds room to describe awakening female self-consciousness in a socially obstructive environment. " "

" Dignified film adaptation of the famous shower and love the novel by Charlotte Brontë. Thanks to brilliant actors like Charlotte Gainsbourg and William Hurt not too drög. Since the cinema needs strong feelings, was Zeffirelli's decision to film the Charlotte Bronte novel, not so wrong - especially as the tendency to excesses Kitsch Italians this time focuses on the quieter sounds and thus remains close to the original. "