Title: Surely you jest. What a bomb!
Review: Someone should inform the casting department at the BBC that a forty-year woman with bad teeth and wide hips does not look nineteen just because she's short. She resembles instead a forty-year old, wide hipped dwarf. This overlong adaptation of Jane Eyre is absolutely risible, and I challenge anyone to hum a single line of the elevator music. Look, folks, people back then had little do but read books they could barely lift; it was either that or play dominoes or charades, but that does not mean a modern adaptation should last as long as it takes actually to read the book. This turgid production is two hours too long and stupifyingly dull to boot, suggesting that the director was either paid by the hour or had to fill up two nights of programming. Stick with the elegant version starring Charlotte Gansbourg, an actress with immense sex appeal and backed up by a terrific musical score.
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