Movielogr
Wide Sargasso Sea (2006)
Directed by Brendan Maher
Overview
Dramatisation of Jean Rhys’s novel set in 19th-century Jamaica. The tragic story of the first Mrs Rochester from Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre centres on an arranged marriage between a white Creole heiress and a brooding Englishman, who fall in love only to be torn apart by rumours, paranoia and a cultural divide.
Length 84 minutes
Actors
Rafe Spall | Rebecca Hall | Nina Sosanya | Victoria Hamilton | Lorraine Burroughs | Alex Robertson | Karen Meagher | Fraser Ayres