The Telegraph and Argus has asked Chat GPT for 'an entire bucket list of things to do' around Bradford and one of them is
Explore the Brontë Parsonage MuseumStep into the world of the famous Brontë sisters at the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth, just outside of Bradford.Visit the former home of the Brontë family, which now houses a collection of their personal belongings and manuscripts. (Molly Court)
Jane Eyre 1996 makes it onto a list of '10 Underrated Romantic Dramas From the '90s, Ranked' compiled by Collider.
6 'Jane Eyre' (1996)Franco Zeffirelli's 1996 adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's timeless classic, Jane Eyre, stars Charlotte Gainsbourg in the title role opposite William Hurt and Mr. Rochester. The film is a faithful if condensed, version of the classic tale, following Jane's romance with the domineering and secretive Rochester.Jane Eyre does justice to the source material as best as a two-hour movie can. However, Gainsbourg is the reason to watch; an inspired choice to play the beloved heroine, Gainsbourg shines as Jane, delivering one of the character's most faithful iterations. While Hurt is miscast as Rochester, Gainsbourg single-handedly elevates this adaptation. (David Caballero)
The Guardian reviews Caitlin Moran's What About Men?
By contrast, women are spoiled for choice when it comes to literary advice on how to be happy and proud, Moran claims. She cites Jane Eyre. But Jane Eyre, last time I looked, is about a woman who winds up married to a controlling dick who literally imprisons his first wife in the attic and winds up a symbolically castrated invalid cared for by our heroine. If that’s a role model for women’s happiness, or for how women and men might get along, we’re more screwed than Moran supposes. (Stuart Jeffries)
We haven't read Caitlin Moran's book but we have read Jane Eyre and think that, perhaps, the reviewer needs to reread it and not miss the point about it this time around.
Another Brontë reread is due for film director Christian Petzold as well since he claims the following in an interview for Bomb.
A couple of years ago, I was infected with Covid and bedridden for weeks. I was reminded of Emily Brontë’s novels in which characters are sometimes bedridden for three to four months when they are ill. Whenever I am down with fever and on bedrest, I give myself a challenge, an idea, or a subject to think about. (Arun A.K.)
Well, next time he's on bedrest the challenge could be finding out that Emily Brontë wrote only one novel.
La Fedeltà (Italy) reviews Emily.
Film biografico di intensa e potente originalità, “Emily” è un’opera prima che mette in luce la grande maturità artistica di Frances O’Connor in grado di costruire un ritratto della grande scrittrice inglese partendo dall’assunto che non è mai davvero possibile raccontare un autore fino in fondo, la sua ricchezza e complessità, e così la O’Connor decide di concentrarsi più sulla persona che sull’opera in sé, più sulla donna e la sua epoca piuttosto che sul suo celebrato romanzo, (celebrato dai posteri, soprattutto…). Emma Mackey nei panni di Emily Brontë è a dir poco strepitosa e il film è un ritratto di potente e suggestiva intensità. Da non perdere. (Carlo Turco) (Translation)
GQ (Mexico) lists Emma Mackey's best roles and one of them is Emily.
The New York Times reviews the play The Saviour at Irish Repertory Theater.
From there, clues pointing to a traumatic episode pile up. After her mother died when she was a young girl, Máire was sent to a Magdalene laundry, a “reformatory for whores and hussies,” as she describes it. These laundries, operated by Catholic religious orders and propped up with state funding, incarcerated thousands of Irish girls and women as late as 1996. Máire recounts the monotony of the work, the suffocating silence imposed on the “forgotten girls,” and the unmourned death of a friend who dropped “dead in the steam.” Such reminiscences, though chilling, seem both overly contrived and overly familiar when spatchcocked together, departing little from abused-children narratives handed down by Dickens and Charlotte Brontë. (Rhoda Feng)
On Airmail, actor Simon Callow mourns the death of fellow actor Julian Sands.
Julian Sands was never meant to die at home in bed. For all his outward demeanor of an archetypal English public-school boy, he was, just millimeters below the surface, a wild man: Heathcliff, but with a sense of humor—a blond and kempt Tarzan, irresistible and impossible, charming and brutal, wicked and adorable. He was outward-turned, his eye raking the horizon, buttock muscles clenching and unclenching, ready for conquest.
Revista Moi (in Spanish) lists novels that will make you think about love and one of them is Wuthering Heights. Stay at Home Artist has written a new Brontë-inspired short story.
