Wide Sargasso Sea( 1993)

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The sensual film based on the acclaimed novel by Jean Rhys.

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In the wake of Jamaican emancipation, French colonist Annette Cosway falls into poverty and marries racist Englishman Paul Mason. But when Annette's young son dies in a fire started by former slaves, Mason flees to England, leaving his grief-stricken wife and her Creole daughter Antoinette behind. Soon Antoinette learns she must marry to claim her inheritance and sets her sights on Rochester, an Englishman eerily similar to Mason.

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Karina Lombard
Antoinette Cosway
Nathaniel Parker
Edward Rochester
Rachel Ward
Annette Cosway
Michael York
Paul Mason
Martine Beswick
Aunt Cora
Claudia Robinson
Christophene
Paul Campbell
Young Bull
Naomi Watts
Fanny Grey
Rowena King
Amelie

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A review by Wuchak

Written by Wuchak on Thu May 30 2019

***Tragedy, love, hate and madness in 19th century Jamaica*** A young woman (Karina Lombard) marries an Englishman (Nathaniel Parker) in mid-1800s’ Jamaica to save her plantation. Rachel Ward plays her mother, Michael York her stepfather and Martine Beswick her aunt, all three being small roles. "Wide Sargasso Sea” (1993) is an adult-oriented historical drama that’s a quasi-prequel to “Jane Eyre.” I say “quasi” because the 1966 novel the movie was based on was written by Jean Rhys 119 years after the release of Charlotte Bronte’s “Jane Eyre” in 1847. In other words, “Wide Sargasso Sea” is...