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Fennell reimagines Wuthering Heights shallowly

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Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights, starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, was widely described by critics as a steamy, campy but emotionally hollow reimagining that prioritized sex appeal over depth.

The Guardian
Wuthering Heights review – too hot, too greedy adaptation guarantees bad dreams in the night

Emerald Fennell’s take on Emily Brontë is an emotionally hollow, bodice-ripping misfire that misuses Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi but makes the most of Martin Clunes Emerald Fennell cranks up the campery as she reinvents Emily Brontë’s tale of Cathy and Heathcliff on the windswept Yorkshire moor as a 20-page fashion shoot of relentless silliness, with bodices ripped to shreds and a saucy slap of BDSM. Margot Robbie ’s Cathy at one stage secretly heads off to the moor for a hilarious bit of self-pleasuring - although, sadly, there are no audaciously intercut scenes of thirst-trap Heathcliff, played by Jacob Elordi , simultaneously doing the same thing in the stable, while muttering gruffly in that Yerrrrrkshire accent of his. This then is Fennell’s Wuthering Heights, or rather “Wuthering Heights”; the title archly appears in inverted commas, although the postmodern irony seems pointless. Cathy is a primped belle quivering in the presence of Heathcliff, who himself is a moody, long-haired, bearded outsider, as if Scarlett O’Hara were going to melt into the arms of Charles Manson. However, he does get substantially Darcyfied up later on, rocking a shorter and more winsome hairstyle, his gossamer-thin shirt never dry. Continue reading. . .

Wuthering Heights review – too hot, too greedy adaptation guarantees bad dreams in the night
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Aftenposten
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Kino: Ächz, seufz, stöhn, lechz

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Süddeutsche Zeitung
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Kino: Ächz, seufz, stöhn, lechz
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Financial Times
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