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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Vanessa Thorpe Arts and media correspondent

‘An impossible passion’: cinema’s long love affair with Wuthering Heights

Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche in character asnd in periodf costume gazing into each other's eyes
Ralph Fiennes as Heathcliff and Juliette Binoche as Cathy in Peter Kosminsky’s 1992 adaptation. Photograph: Paramount Pictures/Sportsphoto/Allstar

When Andrea Arnold imagined the opening shots of her film of Wuthering Heights, she saw heavy mists ­swirling around the outline of a misshapen creature as it scaled a hillside. The figure would slowly be revealed as a climbing man, his back laden with dead rabbits for skinning.

On the day of the shoot, however, it was bright and sunny – and there were only three rabbits. “People keep saying one day I will come to like it,” she said later of her 2011 screen version. “It was a difficult experience making it, for various reasons. I find it hard to look at it.”

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