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(e)Book – Love and friendship

  (e) Book –  Love and friendship Full title :  Love and friendship and other early works Author : Jane Austen Score : /10 Year : 1790 (original) ; 2012 (this edition) Publisher : Duke Classics   ISBN  978-1-62012-155-9  // 9781620121559  (ebook)  Pages :  Language: English Jane Austen is best known for her 6 novels, which all have been adapted into tv movies - but after having read Virginia Woolf's short fiction in chronological order, I decided to apply the same for Austen's publications, to better appreciate her growth and evolution in narrative style. So, before reading her novels which were released from 1811 to 1817, in the following order :  Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma,  Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, I decided to go back to her teenage years, reading Love and Friendships, and other early works.
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Movie - Jane Eyre (2011)






Movie – Jane Eyre 

Score : 4/10  
Year : 2011
Director:  Cary Joji Fukunaga 
Country : UK. USA.  
Language : English. French  
Duration:2h00
Writers : Charlotte Brontë (novel) ; Moira Buffini (screenplay)

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This is only an ok movie, I can’t get why its imdb medium rating is 8/10, as it’s only Jane Eyre on a diet, stripped from the core feminist aspect, and lacks any emotional impact, in spite of good acting, but which was a bit too clinical.

I didn’t like the casting either, not that the main actor’s aren’t good, they would be elsewhere, but they don’t correspond to Brontë’s descriptions… for instance, Jane is too pretty, Rochester isn’t as taciturn as he’s supposed to be and St James far too young… as you can see in these images



 
The good aspects : the score & cinematography are pretty.
Too bad, because there was a lot of potential here, which I feel is wasted.
Final score 4/10 – watch only if you want to compare to other adaptations of the story.

Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Jamie Bell, Holliday Grainger, Sally Hawkins, Tamzin Merchant, Imogen Poots, Judi Dench
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