Jane Eyre (Wasikowska) flees Thornfield House, where she works as a governess for wealthy Edward Rochester (Michael Fassbender, Inglourious Basterds ). Also starring Judi Dench, Sally Hawkins and Jamie Bell. And it's all the more impressive in light of the young Australian star's charmingly modern portrayal of an American teenage daughter in 'The Kids Are All Right. Jane Eyre (2011) Charlotte Brontë adaptation with Mia Wasikowska ( Alice in Wonderland ), from the director of Sin Nombre. That's particularly stirring in a crucial moment of self-assertion-'Am I a machine without feelings?' she begins-with Michael Fassbender's forbiddingly handsome Rochester. Jane's personal power seems entirely her own, rather than some anachronistic notion of self-empowerment. Wasikowska works with economical purity within the novel's 19th-century English setting. (Eighteen feature films, to be exact, and nine TV versions.) This Jane meets the world and everyone in it with a rock-solid sense of herself that can only be shaken by love. Ive seen four adaptations of Charlotte Brontes Jane Eyre so far, and while all of them have had at least one good element, the two that actually vie for the honor of My Favored One are the 2006 miniseries with Ruth Wilson and Toby Stephens and the 2011 movie with Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender. She embodies Jane's most endearing qualities-courage, passion, devotion, unadorned beauty-but not for a moment the moist poignance that many of the umpteen previous versions have inflicted on her. Almost everything about Cary Fukunaga's version of the Charlotte Brontë romance is understated yet transfixing, mainly-although far from exclusively-because of Mia Wasikowska's presence in the title role. If you like this site, please tell other Bronte fans.

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Soon after the fevered opening of this latest 'Jane Eyre,' the far-off figure of the heroine, unmoored on the moors, stands at a crossroads that is hardly more than a crosspaths-four corners faintly traced in one of the film's many understated yet transfixing vistas. In addition, I report on books and films related to Jane Eyre, and I delve into other writings by Charlotte and her sisters.

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