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Charlotte Brontë's primness and jealousy are a useful contrast with Emily’s readiness to leap into life, unhindered. Two minor characters stand out for different reasons. The moors are shown in many different lights, with rare moments of sunshine amidst storms. Yorkshire itself is bleakly splendid, almost becoming a character. The story ends with her pouring her aching heart and bereft soul into the writing of Wuthering Heights. In one of his drunken stupors, Branwell withholds a vital letter, causing Emily to go into a downward spiral. Their boisterous antics are a good counterbalance for the scholarly intensity of Emily’s French lessons.īut it’s Branwell who causes Emily’s life path to take a tragic turn. Then there’s the stern kind of love the father (Adrian Dunbar) has for his children and the love of God, and which inspires Mr Weightman’s moving first sermon.įree-spirited Branwell, who loves Emily above anyone else, brings out Emily’s wild side. There’s the love the siblings Emily, Charlotte (Alexandra Dowling), Anne (Amelia Gething) and Branwell (Fionn Whitehead) have for their deceased mother, chillingly channelled by Emily in an early scene with a spooky mask. Many kinds of love hold the Brontë family together, Frances O’Connor shows us. The exquisitely tender love scenes involving Emily and her secret love, Mr William Weightman (Oliver Jackson-Cohen), her father’s new curate, are key to the film’s success. And they’ll find the driving force of both Wuthering Heights and Emily is the passion between the two main characters.Įmma Mackey as Emily is riveting and suitably bewitching.
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Viewers looking for nods to Wuthering Heights or what’s known of Emily Brontë's life story will find things like ghostly trees featuring in a remote Yorkshire landscape, fireside storytelling, violent storms, untimely death, people peering through windows and a neighbouring rich family called the Lintons. Like Bridgerton, however, Emily strongly suggests society was overdue for a shakeup but in the meantime, people are doing the best they can with what’s in front of them. Bridgerton was essentially created for laughs.
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It’s not like the Netflix series Bridgerton (2020-22, Shonda Rimes), though. There’s a historic setting, as befits a story about Emily Brontë's life and times, but the behaviour of the characters and some of their language is almost contemporary. Writer-director Frances O’Connor’s imaginative, emotionally charged film will take you to the heart of all of it. If you haven’t read Wuthering Heights recently, or ever, and if you know nothing about Emily Brontë's life, don’t worry.
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