Wide Sargasso Sea

I saw this movie few years back and i still remember it good for the plot and karina lombard.she is a perfect actress. and she is sexy too in those nude scenes.hope i get to see this movie again.... Full review

The Wide Sargasso Sea is one of the most beautiful books ever written. Following a string of only mildly successful novels and short stories, Rhys disappeared off the radar, and many believed her dead. She was discovered years later living... Full review

I think reading the book helps the viewer appreciate the movie. The movie is a pretty faithful adaptation to the novel. The movie tells the story of the crazy wife in the attic in Jane Eyre. Not only does it... Full review

'Wide Sargasso Sea' is a film that combines a very loose film adaptation of Rhys's novel with sex scenes that are alternately hokey and hilarious (they never get it on nearly as prodigiously in the novel). That said, I *will*... Full review

The following review is taken from my contribution to a thread called "Worst novel adaptations" from the Film General board: Wide Sargasso Sea was originally a beautiful, haunting novel set in mid-19th century Jamaica written by Creole-Welsh writer Jean Rhys... Full review

I just recently saw this movie. I must say for a movie titled the Wide Sargasso sea, there was not much ocean scenery or an ocean feel to this movie. Rather a hot sweltering feel, with a movie that only touches... Full review

This film was gorgeous; Jamaica is a beautiful country. This film, however, had serious flaws. One was the rather bizarre use of "erotic" scenes. They were incomplete and contributed little, if anything, to the plot. The viewer only gets a... Full review

Anyone who has ever read Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte's brooding masterpiece, knows the adult, world-weary Edward Rochester. They also know about the secret locked in the tower room of Thornfield Hall. What Charlotte never fully explains is how Mr. Rochester... Full review

Based on Jean Rhys' 1966 novel, "Wide Sargasso Sea" is the story of Antoinette Cosway, who shows up in Charlotte Bronte's classic 1847 novel "Jane Eyre" as Rochester's first wife Bertha Mason - confused? Rhys has taken some liberties with... Full review

Sumptuous-looking, beautifully photographed, meticulously produced....this movie seems to do everything right visually. But its story, very engaging in the first half, runs out of steam in the second. Story points and character motivations are often muddled, and I never got... Full review

Plantation owner Annette Cosway (Rachel Ward) has become so poor that she marries a rich, boorish Englishman whom she does not love. ... Full Review

Worse, the black characters have been reduced to spineless, tragic shadows, morosely wandering the landscape, and the actor playing Antoinettes mixed-race half-brother must face the added indignity of wearing the worlds worst wigand its orange to boot. ... Full Review

In Lombard's fiercely intelligent performance, Antoinette is a heroine for all ages.....Yes, the latest film version of Rhys' brilliant and pathbreaking novel is that bad..... ... Full Review

It's an ambitious but fascinating task, and one that Rhys doesn't really pull off; the film version of Wide Sargasso Sea doesn't do any better, although it does capture the tone and setting of the novel very well. The opening sequence of Wide Sargasso Sea is a lush, slightly surreal shot of entangling strands of kelp, the plants that infest the waters of the title. ... Full Review

But the film, directed by John Duigan ( Flirting ), is more lush than literate..... ... Full Review

2006, 84 minutes. Director: Brendan Maher Screenplay: Stephen Greenhorn, from the novel by Jean Rhys With: Rafe Spall, Rebecca Hall, Nina Sosanya, Victoria Hamilton, Lorraine Burroughs English novelist Jean Rhys was raised on the Caribbean island nation of Dominica, the... ... Full Article

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. ... Full Article