Jane Eyre (2011)

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Movie
German title Jane Eyre
Original title Jane Eyre
Country of production United Kingdom ,
United States
original language English , French
Publishing year 2011
length 120 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director Cary Fukunaga
script Moira Buffini
production Alison Owen ,
Paul Trijbits
music Dario Marianelli
camera Adriano Goldman
cut Melanie Oliver
occupation

Jane Eyre is a 2011 British romantic drama starring Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender . Directed by Cary Fukunaga , the screenplay is by Moira Buffini and is based on the novel of the same name written by Charlotte Brontë in 1847 .

The film opened on March 11, 2011 in American theaters and on September 9 in British and Irish theaters. The German film release was on December 1, 2011.

action

The film begins with images of a young woman who, tearfully, flees from a large property at daybreak. While fleeing, she is caught by a severe storm and comes to a house in the wilderness. This belongs to Mr. St. John Rivers and his sisters. They take in the hypothermic, exhausted and completely soaked woman who fits into the household under a false name.

The young woman is Jane Eyre. Her youth is shown in a flashback. After the death of her parents, she is taken in as an orphan by her uncle's wife, who shows the little girl no attention or love. One day she is sent to a girls' boarding school, where psychological terror, humiliation and beatings are the order of the day. She befriends Helen, who, however, dies of tuberculosis after a long time . The last stop in her life was now taken from the sensitive Jane.

Now the real story of Jane Eyre is illuminated. As a young adult woman, Jane can leave boarding school , where she herself served as a teacher for some time. She takes a job as governess on Thornfield, where she is received by the housekeeper Mrs. Fairfax to teach little French woman Adèle. The little girl is a ward of the landlord, Mr. Edward Rochester, whom Jane only met after a few months in an accident in the woods.

When his horse shies at the sight of Jane, Mr. Rochester is thrown off and his leg is trapped under the animal. Visibly in a bad mood, he rides away after Jane helped him get on again. The encounter in the house is very distant, because Mr. Rochester is cool and clearly annoyed. But Jane is a strong personality with her own opinion and does not let herself be disturbed.

One night, inexplicably, a fire breaks out in Mr. Rochester's bedroom. Jane is woken up by a noise and saves his life. Despite his distant attitude, she feels very drawn to the man and knows how to bring his soft-hearted insides to light. She also feels his affection, but he is courting beautiful Blanche Ingram. Jane accepts her fate and rejects the idea of ​​a future together. When Edward proposes to her out of the blue, she accepts it after a long hesitation.

Happiness seems perfect, the wedding takes place. But during the wedding, the ceremony is interrupted by an elderly gentleman who identifies himself as the lawyer for Bertha Mason's brother, a Creole from Jamaica . She is legally married to Edward, so the marriage between him and Jane cannot be concluded. They return to the property and Mr. Rochester leads the group to the attic. Bertha has been locked up there for 15 years because she is schizophrenic and violent. Edward calls her "his own demon "; she goes into a fit of anger and has to be held by Edward and a servant. Jane runs out of the room injured, takes off her wedding dress and bursts into tears. She gets up late at night and discovers Edward who has set up camp in front of her door to show her that nothing essential has changed since they are still in love. Jane, however, is unwilling to give up her self-respect and be seen as his lover in the world.

Now it fades back to the first scene in which Jane runs away. The next section of the plot follows, in which Jane works as a teacher in the village school for girls that Mr. St. John Rivers founded. In the late evening there was a knock on the door; Jane opens up and for a moment, which is expressed in a brief vision of a kiss goodbye, believes that Edward is standing in front of it, but it is St. John. He tells her that the lawyer Mr. Brix is ​​looking for a Jane Eyre because her uncle from Madeira has died and left her with his entire fortune of 20,000 pounds . She offers St. John and his sisters £ 5,000 each because they helped her back then and she wants to live like a sister with him and his sisters in the house in the wilderness. He accepts the offer, his sisters return to the house, but after a short time he wants to pursue his real destiny and go to India as a missionary . He wants to take Jane with him and make her his wife, but she refuses, because she only loves him like a brother, and leaves. She thinks Edward is calling for her in the wind. When she returns to Thornfield, however, the property is now only a charred ruin. In the ruin she meets Mrs. Fairfax, who obviously remains there, who tells her that Bertha escaped from the room and set the house on fire. Edward tried to save her (Bertha) from the flames, but he didn't succeed. Jane asks Mrs. Fairfax about Edward's whereabouts. In the final scene, Edward sits neglected with a dog under a tree. As Jane approaches him, she realizes that he has lost his eyesight. He and Jane finally find each other and become a couple.

production

The film is a co-production between BBC Films, Focus Features and Ruby Films. Moira Buffini's script appeared in 2008 on the Brit List, an industry-related listing of the best-produced scripts for British films.

The story is interspersed with flashbacks. In October 2009 it was announced that Cary Fukunaga would be directing the film . He was promoting another film in England when he met the BBC and learned of their plans for a new adaptation. The filmmakers decided to highlight the Gothic elements. Fukunaga said he had spent some time reading the novel and trying to understand what Charlotte Brontë must have felt while writing it. “That kind of horror that runs through the whole story and dark sides like this are very rare. It's dismissed like a normal romance, but I think there's a lot more to it than that. "

The trailer for the film was based on the theme song from the soundtrack of Dario Argento's horror film Suspiria (1977).

occupation

Mia Wasikowska took on the title role. Fukunaga and the producers wanted to cast Jane Eyre with an actress Jane's age. Fukunaga was enthusiastic about Wasikowska's “expression of vigilance in the eyes” and her “portrayal of inner conflict”. Michael Fassbender took on the male lead at her side. He was Fukunaga's first choice.

filming

Filming began on March 22, 2010 and lasted until mid-May. Filming locations included London , various locations in Derbyshire such as Chatsworth House , Haddon Hall , Derbyshire Dales , Froggatt Edge and the "Fox House" in Sheffield . Dario Marianelli , winner of the Academy Award , composed the film music. Michael O'Connor , also an Academy Award winner, designed the costumes. Although the plot takes place in the late 1830s, the 1843 dress style was used. Fukunaga commented, “The clothing style of the 30s was just terrible. All women looked like a wedding cake. "

The weather during the shoot at Haddon Hall was very cold, so Fukunaga was concerned that Wasikowska might suffer from hypothermia (hypothermia) when he was filming the rainy scene on the second day. Even so, he couldn't imagine recording the scene anywhere else , since northern England with Yorkshire and Derbyshire , the moors and valleys " looked like something out of a Tim Burton horror" and thus seemed perfect.

publication

Focus Features owns the rights. The English trailer was released in November 2010. In Germany it was broadcast about 4 weeks before the film started. According to Fukunaga, there is a Director's Cut that lasts about 2.5 hours. The final version was shortened to 2 hours of gameplay.

reception

The film received mostly positive reviews:

“The film elegantly combines horror, crime, love, psycho and emancipation drama and is captivating as a reading of the Victorian classic that focuses less on the dramatic cornerstones than on the psychological penetration of the main female character in particular. Both the camera and the music, but above all the great actors, make the characters' emotional worlds extremely transparent. "

- Jane Eyre in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used

"Stylistically and psychologically convincing reinterpretation of a classic."

- Cinema.de

“Now the American director Cary Fukunaga is also daring Brontë's story - and has created a new interpretation that is one of the strongest adaptations of the 1847 novel. With intensely performing actors and concentrated direction, he succeeds in creating a moving, mysterious-melancholy film about a strong personality and a fabulous love. "

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Awards (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Jane Eyre . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2011 (PDF; test number: 128 977 K).
  2. ^ Age rating for Jane Eyre . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Jane Eyre at cinema.de, accessed on September 19, 2012
  4. ^ Criticism of the FILMSTARTS.de editorial team on Jane Eyre at filmstarts.de, accessed on September 19, 2012