Wide Sargasso Sea

2006 British TV movie adaptation of Wide Sargasso Sea that just isn't up to the quality of the 1993 version. One of the main reasons for that is the casting of the very English Rebecca Hall, an excellent actress in her own right, in the role of the clearly exotic Antoinette. So basically throughout the movie there is a constant dialling down of any of Antoinette's exoticness to accommodate this. Her mixed racial past, a key part of the story, is mostly absent and it means any relationship Antoinette has with the house help is also absent. This adaptation feels more likes it's just ticking off the plot points to the very end. While there's sexual tension between the two in some early scenes, that quickly dissipates before the relationship turns sour. Plus this version seems restrained as it barely shows the sex and tones down the ugliness of the downturn in the relationship. I suppose that's the limitations of television, but still it leads to a rather by-the-numbers version of the tale.

Tags: Rebecca Hall, Lorraine Burroughs

Rebecca Hall

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Lorraine Burroughs

10284kb 29sec 960x544 (sex scene)