REVIEW: ‘Wuthering Heights’ — Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Gothic classic is Bronte-lite fan fiction

DUBAI: Nearly two centuries after Emily Bronte wrote “Wuthering Heights” — a book so savage, so dark, so ‘unfeminine’ that early readers were convinced it was written by a man — filmmaker Emerald Fennell has boldly set out to adapt it for the big screen by all but ignoring the book in its entirety. So we have swirling mist, heaving bosoms and slow-motion, close-up yearning. But we have almost nothing of Bronte’s elemental novel and its explorations of class inequality, generational trauma and the supernatural.

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