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WUTHERING HEIGHTS – Review by Susan Granger

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There’s a temptation to say: Any resemblance between Emily Bronte’s classic 1847 gothic novel Wuthering Heights and Emerald Fennell’s sensual screen adaptation is purely coincidental…but that’s not exactly accurate since Fennell re-interprets the toxic, tortured love story, focusing on the singularly depraved, destructive relationship. Without revealing salient plot points, Fennell focuses on tumultuous, obsessive lust – choosing overtly erotic style-over-substance – graphically chronicled in VistaVision by cinematographer Linus Sandgren.

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WUTHERING HEIGHTS – Review by T.J. Callahan

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Emily Brontë is blushing. That’s not just fog floating off the moors, but tearful sexual tension in Emerald Fennell’s very loosely based and extremely steamy big screen version of the classic novel, Wuthering Heights.Emily Brontë’s 1847 Gothic romance about forbidden love, obsession and revenge was met with harsh criticism for its immoral depiction of passion, but even in today’s less prudish society, no one saw Fennell’s intensely provocative interpretation coming. This Wuthering Heights is a heterosexual Heated Rivalry that takes a Saltburn turn.

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WEEK IN WOMEN: Fennell’s WUTHERING HEIGHTS opens for Valentine’s day – Brandy McDonnell reports

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Billed as a bold and original imagining of one of the greatest love stories of all time, Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights stars Margot Robbie as Cathy and Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff, whose forbidden passion for one another turns from romantic to intoxicating in an epic tale of lust, love and madness. Fennell directs from her own screenplay based on the famed 1847 novel by Emily Brontë.

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EMILY – Review by Jennifer Green

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Actor turned debut writer/director Frances O’Connor’s Emily Brontë biopic, Emily, boasts solid acting and beautiful cinematography, and its theme of intellects pushing against the boundaries of their day comes across well in the story and its many memorable moments of strong emotion. But the film also feels a little lost at times in its search for dramatic peaks and forced suspense to keep 130 minutes of screen time interesting. Shaving 30 or more minutes off in editing would have helped keep the story more focused and allowed the film’s many compelling elements to shine.

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