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  1. May 7, 1993 · May 7, 1993. 4 min read. She is a beautiful woman who lives caught in a web of superstition and fear, on an island in the sun. He is a rakish, handsome young man from England, out to visit his friends and perhaps make his fortune. A marriage is arranged between them – a marriage no less attractive because she is the mistress of a great estate.

  2. Jan 1, 1993 · Wide Sargasso Sea Review. The premise of Jean Rhys' huge-selling, psychological bodice-ripper is an imagined, backwards-in-time projection through the early life of the mad old dear banged up in a ...

  3. In the wake of Jamaican emancipation, French colonist Annette Cosway (Rachel Ward) falls into poverty and marries racist Englishman Paul Mason (Michael York). But when Annette's young son dies in ...

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  4. The film dies too, because we do not care about or understand Antoinette. Full Review | Jul 24, 2018. At its heart, Wide Sargasso Sea tells of the ruination of a marriage -- by the past, by the ...

  5. *4,7/5 A personal masterpiece that doesn’t miss much. The story of Jane Eyre doesn’t necessarily feel remarkable, but Rhys’s addition to it sparked the book up entirely. New visions are given to Rochester. And his victims. Nonetheless, the movie is at least as powerful on its own. Jamaica. In this remarkable adaptation, its cultures and complex politics breathe a previously unseen type ...

  6. Sep 2, 2020 · 3.5 (out of 5) stars! THE PLOT: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys is a retelling of Jane Eyre from the point of view of Mr Rochester’s first wife – the mad woman in the attic. Set in Jamaica in the 1830’s, it starts with the disturbing childhood of Antoinette (Bertha) Cosway. White descendants of…

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  8. 98 minutes. Country. Australia. Language. English. Box office. $1,614,784 [1] Wide Sargasso Sea is a 1993 Australian film directed by John Duigan, and starring Karina Lombard and Nathaniel Parker. It is an adaptation of Jean Rhys 's 1966 novel of the same name.

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