Cinemablend: There's really no modernizing Jane Eyre, with all the tragedies borne of a repressed and dogmatic society, the stately manor houses creaking with secrets, and oh, those enormous and constricting dresses. It's not even a comedy like Pride and Prejudice, a classic story that benefited so much from Joe Wright's clear-eyed and sprightly approach a few years ago. So to bring something new and accessible to Jane Eyre, director Cary Fukunaga simply engrosses himself and his actors in the cloaked gloom of the era, stirring up the passion and life that's been there all along in Charlotte Bronte's story. His Jane Eyre feels unmistakably of another era, but there is no dust or pretension here, just a great story impeccably shot and acted, and a film impossible to shake.
My favorite romance is a Gothic romance. The intersection of propriety, passion, and hints of the supernatural or the mystical gives us characters driven by fear as much as they are by love. It’s the starkest presentation of the act of love: a choice between sharing the self with another or choosing to remain safe and closed. Cary Fukunaga’s Jane Eyre provides one of the single best depictions of that choice in recent memory.
FMV says: "Michael Fassbender is suitably brooding and cruel as Rochester, but the relationship between he and Jane in this adaptation of the classic story is never wholly believable."
The ascent to stardom has been a strong and steady process for German-Irish actor Michael Fassbender. A decade in the making, his body of work displays capability, versatility and great deal of good old gumption. If you haven’t heard his name at least once this year, it’s time you came out from under that huge boulder you must’ve been trapped beneath, and say hello to Hollywood’s latest A-Lister.
Here, NXUS have compiled a list of ten of Fassy’s must-see features, complete with trailers and trivia to help educate you in the masterful ways of Fassbender, and how the talented fellow rolls.
Very talented actor. He was great in 300, Xmen First Class, and Inglorious Basterds.
