Emerald Fennell’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ trades on clichés of erotic transgression and is most powerful as a reflection of Hollywood’s crisis of legitimacy.

Emily Brontë's classic novel gets a radical makeover in Emerald Fennell's latest film adaptation of Wuthering Heights, just in time for Valentine’s Day

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Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights is a million times edgier than Emerald Fennell’s

Margot Robbie Shares Insight Into Intimate Scenes With ‘Wuthering Heights’ Costar Jacob Elordi Whatever Wuthering Heights’ soul is made of, Emerald Fennell’s and Emily Brontë’s are not the same. As the writer and director of the new adaptation starring Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff and Margot Robbie as Catherine received plentiful criticism for the film, she has attempted to share her approach to developing the beloved classic—and that’s why she added quotation marks to officially call her movie…

A new adaptation of “Wuthering Heights,” starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, is certainly something to behold—but is it something to feel?

A passionate and tumultuous love story set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire moors, exploring the intense and destructive relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw.

Ahead of opening, Wuthering Heights received huge media coverage. It is, after all, the latest adaptation of Emily Brontë's novel, read every year by hundreds of thousands of school children as it sits on the GCSE English Literature syllabus. It stars Margot Robbie, fresh from the cultural phenomenon of Barbie. It is directed by Emerald Fennell, the Oscar-winning writer of…

It does not take long into Wuthering Heights, Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Emily Brontë’s English lit classic, for one to detect the film-maker’s true faith. It is not to the challenging and beloved gothic novel of emotional repression and inheritance; as with many other cinematic adaptations, Fennell dispenses with the unruly latter half of the book, along with most of its conventions. In Fennell’s emphatically maximalist vision – she has explained that the quotation marks in the film’s marketing are a note of humility, to her singular and limited interpretation – the tortuously connected Cathy (Margot Robbie) and Heathcliff (Jacob Elordi) swoon about the Yorkshire moors in extravagant, anachronistic formalwear, flagrantly unbound by period decorum.

'Wuthering Heights' lays traps for the audience, inviting them to search for meanings that are not there.

It’s hard to think of any book with a stronger hold on its admirers than Wuthering Heights. Almost 200 years after publication, Emily Brontë’s tale of forbidden love and ruthless revenge inspires a devotion that makes any reinterpretation feel like a personal and proprietary affront. Into this sea of sensitivities has plunged the director Emerald Fennell, whose new adaptation…