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?

I was going to say! I love the NT Jane Eyre, and I loved the Wise Children Wuthering Heights, both making problematic books much better imo.

Timothy Dalton & Zelah Clarke definitely.

There are bits of the 2011 film that I love, and Mia Wasikowska is probably my best Jane, but not completely sold on Michael Fassbender.

Just can't stand Toby Stephens although I like Ruth Wilson as Jane. His massive nostrils take me right out of the story (shallow).

Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine

I am not a fan of that version, but I love that it's a great example of how period drama reflects the period it was made as much as the period it's dramatising.

(cf the insane frills and ringlets in 70s period drama)

I also hate Tony Stephens as Rochester, although I loved him in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall with Tara Fitzgerald.

Although that particular adaptation I hated the script. Book is perfect as it is and I hated what Sandy Welch did with the book.

It is the first I have seen, I read book after seeing that adaptation. It is still my second favorite.

Weirdly, Jane Eyre is a book I have only ever read and never seen on TV.

The Wide Sargasso Sea is also a good follow up.

Oh, Timothy Dalton all the way.

Jane Eyre is one of my faves - I’d watch any adaptation any day of the week! Charlotte Gainsbourgh is my favourite Jane; Ciarán Hinds Is my favourite Rochester. I don’t like Toby Stphens as Rochester at all, but love him in Tenant of Wildfel Hall.

Fassbender.

Definitely this one :)

My people!
I have seen all except the national theatre production but I did catch an amazing stage version of Jane Eyre 2 years ago by the Blackeyed Theatre company.
I love something about every adaptation of my favourite book.
If I had to choose it would be the Ruth Wilson/Toby Stephens version but I do love something in them all.

Thank goodness, I thought I was the only one. It was the first adaptation of it I saw - I must have been about nine and my mother taped it off the TV for me. Adore it, and especially Peggy Ann Garner as young Jane.

I also loved the NT version and don't mind the Ruth Wilson one.

Charlotte Gainsborg is the best Jane for me. So beautifully plain. And her wonderful voice. ❤️ William Hurt was fabulous too & played Rochester just right. Ciaran Hinds Rochester was over the top moody and abusive.