2022 · history · drama · romance
Emily
Directed by Frances O'Connor2h 10m2022
The imagined life of one of the world’s most famous authors, Emily Brontë, as she finds her voice and writes the literary classic Wuthering Heights. Explore the relationships that inspired her – her raw, passionate sisterhood with Charlotte and Anne; her first aching, forbidden love for Weightman and her care for her maverick brother whom she idolises.
Our read: Emily (2022) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded history · drama · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, gentle history / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- measured
- intimate
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“You want moody Brontë sister passion with gothic romance and wild moor energy.”
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