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Wide Sargasso Sea (1993) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1993 · 98 mins · English
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- Directed by
- John Duigan
- Starring
- Claudia Robinson, Naomi Watts, Michael York, Nathaniel Parker, Martine Beswick, Rachel Ward
The film adapts Jean Rhys’s novel, set after Jamaican emancipation. French colonist Annette Cosway marries Englishman Paul Mason. When their son dies in a fire started by slaves, Mason flees to England, leaving his grieving wife and Creole daughter Antoinette. To claim her inheritance, Antoinette seeks marriage to Rochester, an Englishman reminiscent of Mason.
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