Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie as Heathcliff and Catherine in Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights. | Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures
You come into a movie based on Wuthering Heights with certain expectations.
Emerald Fennell has been clear that she considers her “Wuthering Heights” — pointed quote marks and all — to be a fantasia, not a straight adaptation of Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel. “It could only ever be an attempt to take a tiny piece of the book and make sense of it,” she said in a recent interview. Still, as a matter of basic fact, Wuthering Heights is a story of passionate, obs...
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