Wuthering Heights (2011)
An epic love story that spans childhood well into the young adult years, the film tells the story of a poor English boy who is taken in by a wealthy family where he develops an intense relationship with his younger foster sister.
1997, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK
1960, Salford, Lancashire, England, UK
13 March 1992, Holloway, London, England, UK
1986, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK
1970, Oldham, Lancashire, England, UK
25 February 1973, Dorset, England, UK
1997, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK
April 28, 2014
Intense and imagistic, sensual and rather salacious, this is a wild, fascinatingly bleak adaptation that seizes on the book's more lurid motifs.
November 29, 2012
In reality it's a bit of a slog.
October 18, 2012
Lyrical and minimalist - if you don't care for such qualities, you may just find it slow ...
February 11, 2013
Wuthering Heights is stunningly shot and beautifully acted. It puts you inside the minds of Cathy and Heathcliff in a way no other adaptation has done before.
October 05, 2016
You could look at this as Arnold doing her job well -- after all, her source material isn't exactly a party -- but it's so bleak that it ends up being a little too hard to watch.
December 06, 2012
Arnold drastically pares back dialogue and exposition, telling the classic tale of passion and revenge with probing, harshly sensual camera work and a minimum of sentimentality.
November 29, 2012
Arnold has been successful in reimagining the story's archetypal emotions in the story, bringing it closer to its passionate elements.
April 13, 2016
Arnold's coup turns the old story around, from a wicked love-lost tragedy into a crisis of a society suffering the guilt and ghosts of slavery.
December 12, 2012
Most of what's here is interesting enough to be valuable on its own right without quite managing to be "good".
October 18, 2012
Essentially a misunderstanding of (or an inability to convey) the breathing soul of this material.
January 04, 2013
Cuts beneath the romantic accretion of decades of movie and TV adaptations to penetrate the dark heathen heart of Emily Bronte's 1847 novel.
November 08, 2012
Arnold ... has put her stamp on Emily Brontë's 19th-century novel Wuthering Heights, but it's a smudged and imperfect stamp, to be sure.
