i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.

Excellent, a Must See

Best movie of this year hands down!

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Mr Rochester is the Ur Gothic hero.MIss Eyre the mousy,rabbit - in - the - headlights timid naïve young woman just put on earth for him to ravage.They should never have been allowed within 20 miles of each other yet somehow this unlikely pairing has captured the imagination of readers since the 19thcentury.It is not the least bit believable and Mr Welles and Miss Fontaine have zero chemistry together and a marriage would be disastrous,but she's a sticker and eventually sees off opposition from mad wives and heiresses and gets her man. That's it in a nutshell but the joy is in the dramatic settings,the crashing thunder, burning rooms, the mist that makes one think of Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce following the footprints of a gigantic hound and the absolute villainy of the villains. Many of the supporting cast are English exiles and acquit themselves as to the manner born. Silent stars Mr B.Bevan and Miss M.Marsh are welcome extras. Archetypal Hollywood melodrama now 75 years old and of it's type never bettered.

Orson Welles is so sexy in this film that Joan Fontaine looks a bit lost. I didn't care for her in this film because basically, she lacked the complexity of the literary character and was too Hollywood-looking.So much was left out in the film adaptation that the ending seemed hastily thrown together. The best scenes were the Lowood School scenes (featuring a very young Elizabeth Taylor as the ill-fated Helen).I have watched several film versions of the book, and there are some I like much better (the TV miniseries starring George C. Scott and Susannah York is my favorite), but this film is worth watching just to see how handsome and talented the great Orson Welles was, back in the day.

The black and white cinematography of Jane Eyre is awe-inspiring. It ranks up there with night of the hunter for me, both are some of the best ever captured. It also has the same eerie factory that creeps the audience out so well. The backstory of Jane Eyre, as a young girl, played by Garner is so well done that the adult Jane does not need to show that much expression, in her acting. It also fits the plane girl character better. Orson Welles' acting on this movie was not what I would expect of him. To be he seemed slightly disinterested at times, or slightly over the top during other times. The story and script, as well as the cinematography is what makes this movie great. Acting does factor into it, but not that much.

I found this movie on Netflix streaming movies. The novel of the same title has been popular for a long time and there have been a number of movie adaptations. I don't read much fiction and have not read this, but it seems that it must follow the book fairly closely because at various points we see part of a page of the novel.Jane Eyre is an orphan in 1820s England and has the misfortune of being taken in by her mean aunt, her deceased father's sister. At about 10 she is sent to an orphanage and school for trouble children. But she has a good spirit, she will not be broken, and she learns well. Enough that she is asked to be a teacher when she was about 20. An interesting small part is Jane's new friend Helen, who gets sick and dies. That part is played by 10-yr-old Elizabeth Taylor, only about a year before she hit it big in National Velvet.The young adult Jane is played by Joan Fontaine. She refuses the teaching job at the oppressive orphanage and goes out on her own, finding a job as a governess for a wealthy widow. He is Orson Welles as Edward Rochester. He is supposed to be maybe 15 years older than she, but in fact the two actors are only two years apart, but Welles always did look older than his chronological age.It is the traditional story, playboy Edward comes and goes, has a very rough exterior, but Jane sees something in him that captivates her heart. She would love to be his bride but it seems doomed when it is revealed he is already married, his wife went crazy and is kept in a barricaded room in his castle-like mansion.The film being 1943 is a throwback to the black and white days when inventive lighting and camera angles heightened the drama and punctuated the suspense. Both Welles and Fontaine are super in their roles. Welles of course is mostly known for his Citizen Kane but this is an opportunity to see him as an actor and he is quite something to watch.