After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Cinematography
Every frame looks like a renaissance painting in mourning.
Acting
Fassbender smolders; Wasikowska's stillness speaks volumes.
Score
Dario Marianelli's piano will haunt your Spotify.
Director
Cary Joji Fukunaga
Mia Wasikowska
Jane Eyre
Michael Fassbender
Edward Rochester
Jamie Bell
St. John
Sally Hawkins
Mrs. Reed
Simon McBurney
Mr. Brocklehurst
Valentina Cervi
Bertha Mason
Judi Dench
Mrs. Fairfax
Holliday Grainger
Diana Rivers
Tamzin Merchant
Mary Rivers
Amelia Clarkson
Young Jane
Craig Roberts
John Reed
Lizzie Hopley
Miss Abbot
Jayne Wisener
Bessie
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fukunaga insisted on natural lighting; many interior scenes used actual candles, requiring special lenses and patient actors.
The film opens with Jane fleeing Thornfield — a structural choice that transforms the novel's linear mystery into fragmented psychological horror, making us feel her disorientation before we understand it.
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