This is the type of film where you can see and feel the creator's love for the source material (i.e. the OG film) and the historical period where the story is set.
I appreciate how lots of visuals were inspired by the artworks of romanticists (Thomas' scene on a cliff in an unsettling landscape is just like Caspar David Friedrich's "Wanderer" & Ellen's stifling erotic dreams resembles the artpieces of Johann Heinrich Füssli etc. ), and because of that it gains…
This adaptation undoubtedly has excellent cinematography but, unfortunately, the creators missed the point of the book by adding more Gothic elements and taking them at face value, while initially they were subverted as Bronte and her contemporaries grew tired of gothic tropes. And yet the most dissappointing thing about this film is that it's not really a story about Jane Eyre. The reason why this novel has become a classic we all know and love is not beause of romance…
