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Adaptation of the novel by Charlotte Brontë about Lucy Snowe, who travels to th fictional city of Villette to teach at an all-girls school, where she meets romance and adventure. With Joseph Fiennes, Harriet Walter and Keira Knightley.
Charlotte Bronte writes beautiful prose and while many do not like this book as well as Jane Eyre, I think it might be her strongest work. Lucy Snowe is someone I could know, and like, today. She is strong and feminist. She has goals that are separate from the man in her life. She loves her man, and yet she seems happiest and most fulfilled during the years he is away. She is independent enough that it seems she would be fine if he were not to be in her future. She is wonderfully strong and yet
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I liked the story, but to be honest, I didn't like the ending. I really wished a different ending, but it wasn't my story.
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