#emily-bronte

#emily-bronte

Emerald Fennell's adaptation of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights came to theatres worldwide on 13 February, with the director Emerald Fennell saying she hopes it will provoke a sort of primal response. But Bronte's tempestuous 1847 novel itself has been described as too extreme for the screen and on its release it was certainly not interpreted as a love story. I can't adapt the book as it is but I can approximate the way it made me feel, Fennell has said.

Set in Yorkshire, Emily Bronte's tempestuous novel opens with Mr Lockwood, the new tenant at Thrushcross Grange, visiting his sullen landlord, Heathcliff, at his remote farmhouse where he gets snowed in. Bedding down for the night, he stumbles upon the diaries of the late Catherine Earnshaw, who writes of her love for Heathcliff, an orphan brought by her father to live with the family. Later Mr Lockwood has a nightmare in which the ghost of Catherine begs to be let in through the window