Wide Sargasso Sea

Name: Wide Sargasso Sea
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Romance
Released: 1993-04-16
Duration: 98 min
Cast: Martine Beswick, Naomi Watts, Paul Campbell, Karina Lombard, Rowena King

The sensual film based on the acclaimed novel by Jean Rhys.

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Release Date

4/16/1993

Runtime

98 mins

Genres

Thriller Drama Romance

Overview

In the wake of Jamaican emancipation, French colonist Annette Cosway falls into poverty and marries racist Englishman Paul Mason. But when Annette's young son dies in a fire started by former slaves, Mason flees to England, leaving his grief-stricken wife and her Creole daughter Antoinette behind. Soon Antoinette learns she must marry to claim her inheritance and sets her sights on Rochester, an Englishman eerily similar to Mason.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

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A sensual, fever-dream descent into colonial trauma and marital possession, where a woman's fragile inheritance becomes a trap. Watching Antoinette's identity dissolve under her new husband's cruelty unfolds with hypnotic dread.