Jane eyre (2006)

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Movie
German title Jane Eyre
Original title Jane Eyre
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 2006
length 260 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Susanna White
script Sandy Welch
production BBC , WGBH Boston
music Rob Lane
camera Mike Eley
cut Jason Krasucki
occupation

Jane Eyre is a four-part television film by the BBC based on the novel of the same name by Charlotte Brontë . The main actors of the literary film adaptation were the previously unknown Ruth Wilson as Jane Eyre and Toby Stephens as Edward Rochester. It was first broadcast on October 15, 2006 on BBC1 .

Haddon Hall, Thornfield Hall in the movie

Overview of the plot

The penniless orphan, Jane Eyre, who lives in the care of her wealthy but vicious and hard-hearted aunt Mrs. Reed, is sent to a boarding school at the age of ten. The boarding school, the Lowood School, is run by the strict and unjust clergyman Mr. Brocklehurst. The living conditions of the students are extremely harsh. Many children die in a typhoid epidemic, including Jane's best friend Helen Burns. Due to the living conditions of the schoolgirls, which became public due to the epidemic, Mr. Brocklehurst was deposed as headmaster and the situation improved. Jane is also a teacher at Lowood School eight years later. Looking for change, she posts a job advertisement in a newspaper. She receives an offer as governess of the young French woman Adèle Varens at Thornfield Hall, which she accepts.

At Thornfield Hall, Jane is warmly received by the housekeeper, Mrs. Fairfax. She quickly finds access to Adèle and enjoys working with the lively girl. While walking, Jane is almost run over by a horse. The rider can stop the horse in time, but falls over. Jane helps the stranger, who sprained his ankle in the fall, back onto the horse. On her return to Thornfield Hall, she learns that the man is Edward Rochester, the owner of Thornfield Hall, guardian of Adèle and her employer. Rochester, impressed by Jane's quick-wittedness and spirit, engages them in increasingly intimate conversations.

Mysterious incidents leave Jane wondering whether there is another person living in the mansion who has not been introduced to her. When asked, Mrs. Fairfax tells her that it is Grace Poole, the seamstress of the house, who lives alone in an otherwise unused tower of the castle. One night Jane notices that a fire has broken out in Mr. Rochester's bedroom. With her courageous attempts to extinguish the fire, she saves Rochester, whose bed is already on fire, the life. The next day, Rochester surprisingly leaves Thornfield Hall. After a while he returns with a group of ladies and gentlemen, residents of the neighboring mansions. Lady Ingram and her attractive daughter Blanche Ingram belong to this group. Although Jane is disturbed by the condescending treatment of the house guests and makes Rochester clear about this, he asks her to always attend the evening meetings with the guests. Jane notices that she is jealous of Blanche Ingram, who she thinks is her employer's future wife.

Immediately another guest appears unannounced, a Mr. Mason from Jamaica, about whose appearance Rochester is visibly upset. During the night the whole company is awakened from sleep by a loud scream, but Rochester quickly calms it down again. Rochester tells Jane to watch over the seriously injured Mason until he calls for a doctor. Early in the morning Rochester sends the injured person away in a carriage, accompanied by the doctor.

After these events, a servant appears to her aunt and tells her that she is dying and that she wants to see Jane. Rochester grudgingly grants her leave. Jane finds the aunt on her deathbed. In a clear moment, Mrs. Reed confesses to Jane that she has kept an uncle in Madeira who wanted to contact her. After the funeral, Jane returns to Thornfield, eagerly awaited by Rochester, where the allegedly impending wedding between Rochester and Blanche Ingram is the subject. The guests leave and Rochester casually mentions that he has found a new position for them. Jane realizes that she loves Rochester. In an emotionally charged conversation it turns out that the wedding plans with Blanche Ingram are only faked and Edward actually loves Jane. He proposes to her and the two decide to get married soon.

Two days before the wedding, Jane wakes up from a nightmare. She sees a terrifying female figure in her room. In the morning she discovers that her bridal veil is cut. Edward tries to calm her down and explains the incident by saying that she must have only dreamed the woman. During the wedding, Mason appears at the church with a lawyer and explains that Rochester is already married to his sister Bertha Mason, who is staying at Thornfield Hall. Bertha is insane, is being kept hidden at Thornfield Hall by Rochester and is being cared for by Grace Poole, a former madhouse attendant. Although Rochester begs Jane to stay with him and live with him in his villa on the Mediterranean, Jane flees Thornfield Hall completely penniless.

Exhausted, she wanders through a moor, falls on a rock and passes out. The young clergyman, St. John Rivers, finds her and brings her to his house. There Jane is nursed back to health by his two sisters Diana and Mary. The Rivers family turns out to be impoverished but educated. Jane suppresses her memories of Rochester and begins a new life under an assumed name with the Rivers. St. John can offer her a modest livelihood as a teacher in a newly established village school. Jane is delighted to be resuming teaching.

One day St. John reports that a lawyer wrote to him that her uncle in Madeira had died and left her a fortune of £ 20,000. The Rivers siblings are also related to Jane through their mother, née Eyre, but were not included in the will due to an old family dispute. Jane gives the Rivers siblings their headboards in a generous gesture. St. John urges Jane to marry him. Although he does not love her, he considers her suitable to accompany him as a missionary to India. While taking a walk in the moor while thinking about the marriage project, Jane thinks she hears Rochester's cry for help. She returns to Thornfield and, to her horror, finds the manor house in a burned-out ruin.

Jane learns from a shepherd that Bertha Mason has started a fire in the castle. Bertha died in the fire. While trying to save Bertha, Edward Rochester was badly injured and blind. He retired to an estate and no longer maintains any contacts. Jane finds Edward in a desperate and depressed state, her deep affection for Rochester, who still loves her, and her wit and mischief give him new courage to face life. They get married and have two children. The two Rivers daughters can also get married, now with a decent dowry, and St. John lives out his missionary dream in India.

Haddon Hall in Derbyshire, film set for Thornton Hall
Wingfield Manor in Derbyshire

Locations

The filming location for the Lowood School chapel was vaulted cellars from Bolsover Castle , Derbyshire . Stanage Edge and Haddon Hall near Bakewell , also in Derbyshire, location of the film adaptation of Jane Eyre by Franco Zeffirelli as well as Pride and Prejudice after Jane Austen from 2005, served as the filming location for the mansion Thornfield Hall of the novel. Individual scenes played at Thornfield Hall and the Lowood School were also filmed at the ruinous Wingfield Manor in South Wingfield . The location for the village school, run by Jane Eyre on behalf of St. John Rivers, was a remote 19th-century stable building on Snake Pass .

reception

The Guardian praised Ruth Wilson's portrayal of Jane Eyre as a strong, non-neurotic and skeptical woman and, in particular, Toby Stephens' elaboration of the character of Edward Rochester as a vulnerable macho. According to the New Statesman , Wilson's game is convincing because she works out Jane as an intelligent and thinking young woman. Stephens makes it clear with his implementation of the role that this Rochester, who makes fun of everyone, is actually looking for a companion with whom he can laugh.

Awards

  • 2008 Golden Globe Award for Ruth Wilson in the role of Jane Eyre for best actress in a mini-series or a TV movie.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ BBC website about the shooting , accessed February 20, 2012
  2. ^ BBC website about the shooting , accessed February 20, 2012
  3. ^ Lord Manners website on Haddon Hall , accessed February 20, 2012
  4. ^ BBC website about the shooting , accessed February 20, 2012
  5. ↑ a b BBC website about the shooting , accessed February 20, 2012
  6. ↑ Article in the Guardian, September 23, 2006 , accessed February 20, 2012
  7. ^ New Statesman, October 2, 2006 , accessed February 20, 2012