i love the book and jane eyre and have see many version of it . all have their strong point and their fault . however and this be one of the bad i have see . i do not care about jane or mr. rochester . charlotte gainsbourg ( jane ) be almost tolerable and certainly look the plain part and but she have no emotion in any of her line . i couldn not imagine what mr. rochester saw in her . that bring u to mr. rochester . william hurt have even less emotion than jane and if that be possible . how two such insipid people could fall in love be a mystery and but it certainly do not hold my attention . perhaps the director ( zeffrelli ) fell asleep during the production . the timothy dalton ( too handsome for mr. rochester . ) version be far more faithful to the book and but ciaran hind play the perfect mr. rochester in the 1997 a or e version ( which be not all that true to the book ) . try to find something positive about this movie represent geraldine chaplain be perfect in her role .