Directed by Michael Winterbottom. Screenplay written by Hossein Amini; Based on the novel Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy.

Sue Bridehead

• Haven't we been punished enough?
• Please don't call me a clever girl, Mr Phillotson, there are too many of us these days.
• [Sue has just spurned Jude again] Promise me you'll never stop trying.
• It's right that I suffer.
• They locked me up for being out with you, so I jumped out of the window, climbed over a fence, crossed the deepest river in England and here I am!
• You're still Joseph, the dreamer of dreams. And the tragic Don Quixote. Sometimes you are a St. Stephen, who sees Heaven open up, even as they're stoning him.

Dialogue

Sue Bridehead: Why are you looking at me like that?

Jude Fawley: Does it scare you?

Sue Bridehead: No. I am not afraid of any man.

Jude Fawley: Why?

Sue Bridehead: Because no man would touch a woman unless she gives him a reason to. A touch or a look that say come on. If you never look, they'll never come. You are the timid sex.

Sue Bridehead: I would have liked to have talked with her before she died.

Jude Fawley: She would have enjoyed that.

Sue Bridehead: What did she say?

Jude Fawley: She said we both make bad husbands and wives.

Sue Bridehead: Do I irritate you?

Jude Fawley: No.

Sue Bridehead: Even though I'm always trying to prove how cleverer than you I am.

Jude Fawley: You are!

Sue Bridehead: Don't say that!

Jude Fawley: Why not?

Sue Bridehead: Because it's not the sort of thing you should admit to!

Jude Fawley: Even if it's true?

Taglines

• His world could never change... Until she became his world.
• A time without pity. A society without mercy. A love without equal.
• It is a difficult question to answer... Whether to follow your dreams... Or to let life lead you where it will.
• It is a difficult question for any man to answer... Whether to follow his dreams no matter what... Or to give in slowly and let life lead you where it will.

Major cast