It's probably not a good sign when, during the big mutual declaration of love scene in "Jane Eyre," the audience starts chuckling.

Went to a screening of the film last night, met some of the stars and the director (who eerily resembled Hugh Grant and insisted he'd never heard that one before). It's ... all right. Rather Gothic but somehow not very atmospheric. But the shots of the English landscape and moors are just spectacular, and you do get a sense of what isolation might have meant in that cold, windy place.

That said, men wore muttonchops and I just couldn't have survived. That's just one male facial hair expression I can't get along with. Well, that and the little tuft of hair just below the lip. What is that called?