Elle's Karen Durbin on Jane Eyre: "not your grandma's cozy gothic"

In Elle.com, film critic Karen Durbin comes out cheering for Cary Fukunaga’s Jane Eyre. In addition to the fine performances, Durbin focuses in on what makes this production, with Mia Wasikowska as Jane and Michael Fassbender as Edward Rochester, so unique. As she quips in her intro: “this is not your grandma’s cozy gothic.” But more than being just modern, the film is uniquely about Jane:

Fukunaga is a cinematographer turned director, and the thoughtful way he cuts back and forth in time keeps the story moving even while augmenting it and further piquing our curiosity. But what emerges most vividly is Jane herself. It’s her story, after all, but on-screen she has seldom been allowed to fully claim it—her sympathetic goody-two-shoes character over-shadowed by that dubious object of desire, the far more vivid Rochester, smoldering away on the battlements.