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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
This adaptation of Jean Rhys' audacious 1966 novel invites us to luxuriate in a full-tilt case of jungle fever. In the 19th century, Rochester (Nathaniel Parker), a conventional but spirited young Englishman, arrives in the British colony of Jamaica, where -- it has already been arranged -- he will marry Antoinette (Karina Lombard), an exotically beautiful Creole heiress with an ominous past. The marriage starts out as a blissful plummet into desire and spiritual communion. Before long, though, Rochester begins to experience his wife's ardor as a whirlpool sucking his identity into the abyss. Rhys wrote a fanciful prequel to ''Jane Eyre''; what's alive in John Duigan's screen version is a stirringly modern look at the forces that can tear even a passionate marriage apart.
Posted May 28, 1993
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