A rather anemic version of Charlotte Bronte’s classic novel, Focus Film and BBC’s Jane Eyre favors atmosphere over strong narrative. While Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender gave extraordinary performances, the film as a whole lacked cohesiveness. Released in theatres on March 11, Jane Eyre is a faithful but not inspired rendition of the timeless gothic romance.
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.
