My flatmate has this wonderful expression for when that at-home-working-or-just-not-going-out-anywhere-at-all-anytime-soon-makeshift hairdo. All possessors of medium to long hair have a variation of this style: your hair is all scraped back into a bun on top of your head just so it's out of the way. She calls it "Jane Eyre hair". And true to form, in the latest screen adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's classic novel, Jane's hair, although slightly more considered, is the most plainly styled.
I watched the film again last night and I must say I think that it is exceptional. Besides some lovely acting from Mia Wasikowska (Jane) and Michael Fassbender (Rochester...drool) and the beautiful cinematography of the moors of Northern England, I love the use of light.
The film seems more Gothic horror the one of the most famous romantic dramas of all time. The fact that indoors, it is always the floors or the walls that are lit, never the actors themselves, so that their faces are always in shadow: only certain hollows or wrinkles or contours captured. And always carrying solitary candles, lonely characters making small pools of light in the overwhelming darkness.
Delicious.
