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"&lt;p&gt;Ok, I get that you&amp;apos;re probably up to here with &lt;em&gt;Jane Eyre&lt;/em&gt;. Charlotte Bront&amp;#xEB;&amp;apos;s 1847 novel about the young governess and her brooding, Byronic master has been shoved down our throats since high school. Then there&amp;apos;s the 18 feature films that have been carved out of the book, plus nine TV-movie versions. Is anything fresh even possible? Hang on, haters. Director Cary Joji Fukunaga (&lt;em&gt;Sin Nombre&lt;/em&gt;) and screenwriter Moira Buffini (&lt;em&gt;Tamara Drewe&lt;/em&gt;) have deftly brought out Bront&amp;#xEB;&amp;apos;s gothic terrors. And they&amp;apos;ve wisely cast it young.&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;wm:embed type=\"related\"&gt;&lt;/wm:embed&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=\"../../movies/blogs/the-travers-take/red-riding-hood-is-dull-in-the-extreme-jane-eyre-will-surprise-you-20110310\"&gt;Peter Travers reviews &lt;em&gt;Jane Eyre&lt;/em&gt; in his weekly video series, &amp;quot;At the Movies With Peter Travers.&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;p&gt;The splendid Aussie actress Mia Wasikowska, 21, is best known for playing the lead in Tim Burton&amp;apos;s &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=\"../../../movies/reviews/alice-in-wonderland-20100304\"&gt;Alice in Wonderland&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. And she brings innocence and carnal curiosity to the role of Jane, a teen orphan who doesn&amp;apos;t know what to expect when she comes to scary-gloomy Thornfield Hall to care for the young ward of Mr. Edward Rochester (Michael Fassbender). Even the presence of friendly housekeeper Mrs. Fairfax (the excellent Judi Dench) can&amp;apos;t hide the fact that secrets are a living, sometimes howling, screaming presence at Thornfield.&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=\"../../music/photos/leading-ladies-on-the-cover-of-rolling-stone-20090916\"&gt;Gallery: Leading Ladies on the Cover of &lt;em&gt;Rolling Stone&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;p&gt;Jane&amp;apos;s first sight of Rochester, his horse heaving up with phallic ferocity, is hardly one of those bonnet-movie meet-cutes. Jane is stirred to her core. Fassbender, 33, the superb Irish actor who excelled in &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=\"../../../movies/reviews/hunger-20090319\"&gt;Hunger&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;a href=\"../../../movies/reviews/fish-tank-20100114\"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fish Tank&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/a&gt;and &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=\"../../../movies/reviews/inglourious-basterds-20090820\"&gt;Inglourious Basterds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, inhabits the glowering Rochester with erotic intensity and leavening wit, never letting the tight breeches and puffy shirts do his acting for him. Wasikowska and Fassbender make a pair of ravishing romantics, giving the movie unexpected sizzle. Repressed sexuality will do it every time. Purists will object to abridgments of the book. But Fukunaga, son of a Japanese father and a Swedish mother, is a filmmaker to watch. He has reanimated a classic for a new generation, letting &lt;em&gt;Jane Eyre&lt;/em&gt; resonate with terror and tenderness.&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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