I went to see Jane Eyre last night at the Kensington Odeon. London streets were on meltdown for most of the day - there were 9.11 services everywhere leading to closures, there was something in Whitehall so Parliament Square was blocked for an hour and then there was a street festival on the Embankment for most of the afternoon. Transport for London needs to have a state of the art traffic web site which updates every five minutes and links into mobiles and gsm systems. Maybe they could just issue warnings on the basis of red, amber and green and tell us where these colours apply. I mention all this as I was trying to reach Kensington for 1745 to see JE and turned backwards and then forwards trying to find a way through from Westminster.............
The film itself tells us nothing new. It was hard to reconcile how Rochester could so quickly fall in love with Jane and so the brooding of the affair in Bronte's book was lost. True it was beautifully shot but if you miss it don't worry over much.