Wide Sargasso Sea (Film), released 1993 — adapted from Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys.
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.
Starring Karina Lombard, Nathaniel Parker, Rachel Ward, Michael York, Martine Beswick.
Directed by John Duigan.
