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A lovely `Jane Eyre' suffers a vocal Hurt.(Metropolitan Times)(Arts & Entertainment)(Movies)
From: The Washington Times
Date: 19960412
Author:Arnold, Gary
The only conspicuous weak link in Franco Zeffirelli's handsome but less than triumphant new production of Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre" is William Hurt. Often wayward when affecting exotic accents, Mr. Hurt remains a vocal and pictorial wet blanket as Jane's brooding beloved, the haunted aristocrat Edward Rochester.
Indeed, Mr. Hurt only warms to the role in its closing stages, when he and Charlotte Gainsbourg, an odd but ultimately distinctive Jane, are kept from marrying by the revelation of the guilty secret Rochester has secluded for years in a wing of his country ...
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