Stars: Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Hunnam, Jim Beaver | Written and Directed by Guillermo del Toro
In Crimson Peak, Mia Wasikowska plays Edith, a young American writer living in the late 1800s with her industrialist father (Jim Beaver). He is approached by Tom Hiddleston’s English gentleman Sir Thomas Sharpe to invest in a motorised clay extraction machine, designed to mine the mountain of blood red clay upon which the Sharpe family home resides. Sharpe’s weird sister, Lady Lucille (Jessica Chastain) has travelled with him in their efforts to woo investors, but it’s Edith that ends up in thrall to Sir Thomas and, after a few spoilery plot happenings, they marry and return to the Sharpe country pile.
Did I mention that Edith can see ghosts? That’s important (or is it?). She has previously been haunted by her long dead mother and upon her arrival in England,...
In Crimson Peak, Mia Wasikowska plays Edith, a young American writer living in the late 1800s with her industrialist father (Jim Beaver). He is approached by Tom Hiddleston’s English gentleman Sir Thomas Sharpe to invest in a motorised clay extraction machine, designed to mine the mountain of blood red clay upon which the Sharpe family home resides. Sharpe’s weird sister, Lady Lucille (Jessica Chastain) has travelled with him in their efforts to woo investors, but it’s Edith that ends up in thrall to Sir Thomas and, after a few spoilery plot happenings, they marry and return to the Sharpe country pile.
Did I mention that Edith can see ghosts? That’s important (or is it?). She has previously been haunted by her long dead mother and upon her arrival in England,...
- 10/15/2015
- by Jack Kirby
- Nerdly
The Brontës are often dismissed as up-market Mills & Boon. But with the release of two films this autumn, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, they look set to rival even Jane Austen in the public's affections
Ours is supposed to be the age of instantaneity, where books can be downloaded in a few seconds and reputations created overnight. But the Victorians could be speedy, too, and there's no more striking example of instant celebrity than Jane Eyre. Charlotte Brontë posted the manuscript to Messrs Smith and Elder on 24 August 1847, two weeks after the publisher had expressed an interest in seeing her new novel while turning down her first. Within a fortnight, a deal had been struck (Charlotte was paid £100) and proofs were being worked on. In the 21st century a first novel can wait two years between acceptance and publication. Jane Eyre was out in eight weeks, on 17 October, with Thackeray...
Ours is supposed to be the age of instantaneity, where books can be downloaded in a few seconds and reputations created overnight. But the Victorians could be speedy, too, and there's no more striking example of instant celebrity than Jane Eyre. Charlotte Brontë posted the manuscript to Messrs Smith and Elder on 24 August 1847, two weeks after the publisher had expressed an interest in seeing her new novel while turning down her first. Within a fortnight, a deal had been struck (Charlotte was paid £100) and proofs were being worked on. In the 21st century a first novel can wait two years between acceptance and publication. Jane Eyre was out in eight weeks, on 17 October, with Thackeray...
- 9/9/2011
- by Blake Morrison
- The Guardian - Film News
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