Wide Sargasso Sea (1993)
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.
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Director: John Duigan
Actors: Claudia Robinson, Karina Lombard, Martine Beswick, Michael York, Nathaniel Parker, Paul Campbell, Rachel Ward