The intent here, I think, is to universalize the story of the young Englishwoman in France, and not worry unduly about the original cultural specifics.
Clocking in at just over two and a half hours, Sara Gmitter’s adaptation of Charlotte Bronte’s “Villette,” feels abridged to the point of incompleteness.
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“Near this spot formerly stood the Pensionnat Heger,” it says on a bronze plaque next to the Palais des Beaux-Arts, “where the writers Charlotte and Emily Brontë studied in 1842-43.” The plaque, put up by the Brontë Society, doesn’t get it quite right, since Emily, who hated Brussels, left in th