Your favorite Jane Eyre adaptation

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I have probably seen all of them, it is one of those books I could read over and over again.
My favorite is Zelah Clarke, Timothy Dalton version, although I must admit I usually skip first few episodes and start watching the moment Jane comes to Thornfield.
What is your favorite adaptation?

Samantha Morton/Ciarán Hinds from 1997. Usually end up watching on YouTube as not available anywhere else (or wasn’t previously).

Not quite what you were asking, OP, but my favourite adaptation of that famous quote from Jane Eyre. I have a collection of short crime stories by women, edited by Jen Green, called Reader, I Murdered Him.

I can't believe I'm the first one to say this... the 1996 version Charlotte Gainsbourg and William Hurt. It's 'the' version for me... probably because it's the first one I saw. All the love for the Ruth Wilson version has got me wanting to see that one again though.

It’s more the costume for me I think?? As also have a complete thing for Mr Knightly (Jonny Lee Miller) and he’s the most reasonable man going. Except when he’s dressed as John Major

My H always called him Mr Twice Knightly

Mr Knightley was Austen’s favourite hero apparently, because he was so sensible but there’s something v sexy about him anyway - especially Johnny Lee Miller (not the millennial looking modern chappy in the latest version where everyone had peroxide blonde hair and micro bladed eyebrows)

I love the Toby Stephens version although I watched the Timothy Dalton one for the first time last week and thought it was pretty good.
Toby is the sexiest though.

@LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet Ahh really, I can understand why he was her favourite!

Jonny Lee Miller and Romola Garai will always be my favourite version, but the new one is very, very funny. Even the full stop in the title makes me chuckle every time.

Yes Romola was the perfect Emma.

BBC version with Ruth Wilson and Toby Stevens, the music and cinematography are just perfect.

Ruth Wilson, now I want to watch it!

knightly is Jeremy Northam and no one else ,
just like Nastassja kinski is Tess And Toby Stephens is Rochester , no one can play any of these character better.

Another vote for the superlative National Theatre version. I sat between my mum and my DD and we relished every moment.

The Wise Children stage adaptation. It was so, so good. Saw it online - broadcast as a paid for live performance from The Old Vic. It's since been broadcast on Sky Arts so I recorded to rewatch.
I do have a soft spot for the Timothy Dalton series though because I remember my mum and I watching it together when I was a child.

yes, i find her v interesting, great depths, an under-rated actor.

Haha, just remembered that The Wise Children production was Wuthering Heights! It was still fantastic!

The one with Ciaran Hinds. He is wonderful as Mr Rochester, absolutely perfect.

My favourite movie but now I'm not sure that I have seen them all. I think I will entertain myself in Jan and Feb by seeking them all out and watching.

Jane Eyre (1983 TV serial):

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Jane Eyre 1996: soap2day.do/movie/watch-jane-eyre-free-11210

Jane Eyre 2011: soap2day.do/movie/watch-jane-eyre-free-14009

Jane Eyre 1947: soap2day.do/movie/watch-jane-eyre-free-4583

Jane Eyre 1973: www.dailymotion.com/video/x86ewzh

Jane Eyre 2006: uktvplay.co.uk/shows/jane-eyre/watch-online

Wow!

Jane Eyre, Samantha Morton and Ciaran Hinds.

Thank you !!!!

That is my favourite too. First one I saw.

Has there been an adaptation of Villette, @lucysnowe2 ? Though I'd probably be on edge watching it, wondering what they would do with the ending which annoyed me intensely when I read it.

There was a TV adaptation in the 1970s, but it's apparently lost :( there have also been two radio adaptations - one in the '90s with Catherine McCormack and Harriet Walter, which is great, and one more recently with Anna Maxwell Martin, which is just ok. Both are on audible I think. Apparently Emma Donaghue, who wrote Room and The Wonder, was going to adapt a new TV version but nothing's been heard recently... possibly got stymied by Covid.

And yes the ending is quite something and I have no idea how they would do it!

I agree, I think he's so underrated in this role. Fantastic actor.

Although I have to join ranks with the Clarke and Dalton fans - it's my favourite. We watched this version in GCSE English and I feel in love with him that year.

The scene where she comes back from visiting her dying aunt and finds him in the field and tells him 'wherever you are is my home' I could watch that scene over and over.