The acclaimed latest version of the Emily Brontë bestseller is, however, not without controversies over race and age
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eviews might be embargoed until next Monday, but Los Angeles social media is getting hot under the collar after an early screening of Emerald Fennell’s highly anticipated adaptation of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights.
“Intoxicating, transcendent, tantalising, bewitching, lust worthy, hypnotic,” wrote Courtney Howard, adding that the film “expertly captures the breathtaking ache and essence of desire” and “is a god-tier new classic”.
Another user called the film “enthralling” and “exquisite”, and lavishing the nouns rather than the adjectives, called it “a beautiful mess of passion, destruction, lust, revenge and unhinged behaviour. Throw the book away and step into the madness of undeniable chemistry and explosive toxic desire.”
