The Bronte Sisters
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Brand: WEA DES Moines VideoDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 55 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-07-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 69
Studio: Arts Magic
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- This program tells the story, charting the progress of Emily, Charlotte and Anne, the Bronte sisters, from their childhood writing collaborations to their independent literary achievements, which are acclaimed the world over. With books such as Jane Eyre , Agnes Grey and Wuthering Heights , the three sisters produced some of the greatest examples of literature of all time. Although all three lived
Movie Reviews of The Bronte Sisters
Movie Review: The Bronte Sisters
Summary: 2 Stars
I am disappointed with this documentary. Firstly, the picture quality is not consistently good. Secondly, the content is mostly biographical, which is to be expected, of course, but is overall rather staid. Indeed, the information on the political, industrial, and social developments of the Bronte period is satisfactory, albeit presented in a sullen tone. Lively interviews with scholars, writers, and students of the Bronte works would have introduced a variety of view points on the Bronte sisters. Also, such interviews would have breathed some life into this documentary which relies almost exclusively on a narrator's voice with occasional and somewhat dull dramatizations of journals and novel excerpts. Only the view of the Yorkshire moors and their influence on the Bronte Sisters' work make this documentary worth some attention.
Summary of The Bronte Sisters
When the Reverend Patrick Bronte moved with his wife and six small children to the West Yorkshire village of Haworth in 1820, few would have guessed the incredible story that was to unfold in the wild moorlands. This program tells that story, charting the progress of the Bronte Sisters from their childhood writing collaborations with Bramwell, to their independent literary achievements which are acclaimed the world over.All three sisters were first published in 1847, Charlotte Bronte with ?Jane Eyre?, closely followed in a joint edition by Emily with her one and only novel ?Wuthering Heights?, and Anne with ?Agnes Grey?. ?Wuthering Heights? shocked Victorian society, but its darkly drawn evil hero Heathcliff went on to become one of the greatest romantic characters to be found in English literature. Although all three sisters had died by 1855, the story of their short lives, played out behind a facade of Victorian respectability, is to many people, as fascinating and dramatic as their work.
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