Jane Eyre graduates from required reading to accomplished cinema. It may come as no surprise that I am not the world’s leading expert, nor am I the world’s biggest fan, of period English chick lit, ...
The candlelight flickers exquisitely even as the passions are slow to ignite in this spare, shrewdly acted but not especially vital retelling of "Jane Eyre." From the 1944 Joan Fontaine-Orson Welles ...