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Blistering performances.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

To understand why Rebecca excites me, you can look my posts about Crystal Klein (#39) and Laure Sinclair (#43), Ashley Smith (#76), Jade Nile (#92). All those babes are like Nomi Malone from « Showgirls », they are all look alike of the same girl i worked with for 3 years. That's when beauty is really a divine mix and is out of words : maybe taken together those 5 babes seems different, but for me, they all have a distinct feature I liked in my past coworker. With Rebecca, i would say her pout, her stance and her big smile ! It was luck that lead me to meet her : i have got a free movie ticket : i went to see « Frost vs Nixon » and Bam ! I'm sure also that Rebecca being British helped also because she has this distinct class of bearing that breaths education and politeness and for whatever reasons, i feel also very Anglo- Saxon in spite of being french ! In « VCB », « IR3 », she was definitely a great addition and delivered always great work ! Now, this Caribbean movie is so far the best she has done for me ! First good thing here is that the movie is ultra fast : 80 minutes ! Sure, as a novel adaptation, a lot has been cut but the essential is here and the pace is straight to the point : Rebecca plays with grace all her phases : the candid, the happy, the wounded and at last, the lunatic ! Her partner is also excellent because right from the start, he plays the fragile, anxious one… So in this humid jungle and lonely mansion, they are easy preys and fall to their doom.And her excerpt is really good: missionary style, grasping her lover and climaxing, very very hot!!

Excellently filmed in Jamaica this adaptation gripped me throughout not least because Rebecca Hall who plays Antoinette is so beautiful and caries off her part as a mixed race fairly wealthy Jamaican lady who is being used by the man she marries because she will provide him a solution to his money problems.This really is multi-layered, moving, gripping, the scenery and music add to the drama and we really see each character come to life on the screen. The racism of white visitors and settlers in Jamaica's early days is not overlooked and neither is the immorality and it's double standards that existed among the so called better classes.This version contains a fair amount of nudity and fairly graphic sex scenes but it all seems very necessary to show the good and evil side of the characters.

Like other 'dominant' cultures, or ex-imperial cultures, some fair play – that British favourite – is more fair than others. That 'Jane Eyre' is practically a part of our national identity is an example of not so fair play. Jean Rhys, who wrote "Wide Sargasso Sea", certainly thought so: it's clear historically that she brooded and brooded on how she might tell a different story; how she might address the imbalance of the unfair representation of Creole people as shown in 'Jane Eyre'.Rhys takes a story which the British might be said to have taken to their hearts, and turns you around and around it, and re-presents it to you, stripped of its familiar historical and cultural associations, rendered uneasy, disturbing even, by the lack of a secure, firm, knowledgeable base from which to view the new circumstances. Edward Rochester the hero, the charming and dangerous man, the verbose, quick-witted soul-mate of poor, plain Jane Eyre: take him out of his moral context, Victorian Britain; take away his supports: his house, his past, his father; put him in a place where only lately has the abomination called slavery come to a formal end; where plants threaten to engulf you, where beauty is intoxicating, and where one's reputation swims in the hot breeze; and you create a different man.In laying bare the horror that lies underneath a great Gothic romance story, Rhys was stripping our eyes of its assorted veils. It seems to me that in this world she creates, Rochester is Britain; and Antoinette is the West Indies: beautiful, exotic, other, misunderstood, abused, damaged, robbed, abandoned by the curiosity, idleness, greed and arrogance of a people who thought themselves superior.More fool me: I haven't read the book; so I have no idea how faithful or otherwise this adaptation is to it. It looked good; it kept you watching; it was well cast. Most importantly, it brings this unique perspective to vibrant life. "Wide Sargasso Sea" serves to remind me that Antoinette's story, her background, her upbringing, her life and what happens to her, is just as much a part of my British 'heritage' as the wild moorland and English gentleman's world of Edward Rochester in 'Jane Eyre'. What Antoinette becomes is monstrous. Slavery was monstrous, and the wholesale rape of the Caribbean for the profit of the very few was equally monstrous. But handsome Rochester is monstrous too: the callous appetites of the society of which he is part help make him so.This certainly makes for uneasy viewing; the altered angle is deeply unsettling, and uncovers some decidedly unpleasant truths about the attitudes of Victorian men – or of white people you might say. You won't forget this version of events: it alters forever the place Mr Rochester occupies in literary, romantic and even social history. But most importantly, it tells HER story. Jane Eyre was poor, plain and little. Antoinette was rich, beautiful, and tall. But both were victims of other people's appetites and greed. This drama showed this expertly.

This adaptation of Jean Rhys's book is very lively, colourful and full of excellent acting. It tells the story of Edward Rochester, before he meets Jane Eyre. He is in the Caribbean, where he falls in love with and gets married to the beautiful young Antoinette. But he discovers the dark secret of her past, and slowly becomes wary of her emotions. The part of Rochester was very well acted by Rafe Spall, though not as well as Toby Stephens in the recent BBC dramatisation of Jane Eyre. Thought some parts didn't seem completely true to Bronte's Jane Eyre, the outline of the "woman in the attic" story is here and proves a useful prologue to the main story.