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Wide Sargasso Sea

Wide Sargasso Sea (2006)

2006-10-09 · 84 min · Rating 5.60/10 (15 votes)

Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys' steamy prequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre

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.

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