- Emily - Wuthering Heights;
- Charlotte - Jane Eyre;
- Anne - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
This new version written and directed by Andrea Arnold is unrelentingly gloomy with intermittent shocks (killing a sheep in living color, snapping a snared rabbit's neck, hanging a couple of dogs and leaving them strug- gling) mingled with senseless scenes that started for no reason, went nowhere, and then stopped.
If I hadn't read the book, I think I would have been utterly bewildered; as it was, I was just angry. We spent most of the movie on the first third of the book in which we saw Heathcliff as a boy from...maybe the Carib- bean? Cathy is still a brainless self-centered vamp, but she is still just as obsessed with Heathcliff as he with her.
I did NOT like:
- The dim, hazy production,
- The unrelenting cruelty,
- The herky jerky hand-held camera work,
- The indictment of those villainous Christians,
- The rainy muddy production,
- The occasional lag which would prompt bucolic interludes with moths, butterflies, birds, dogs and horses.
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Take a look at the trailer:
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3175717913/
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Take a look at the trailer:
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3175717913/
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