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Emma Mackey brings Wuthering Heights author Emily Brontë boldly to life in Frances O'Connor's directorial debut

That most tempestuous English literature classic, Wuthering Heights, has been adapted countless times since it was first published, in 1847.

Emily Brontë's saga of a love so intense, so destructive as to burn all in its wake has enamoured scores of playwrights, composers, and filmmakers, and (most importantly) Kate Bush.

For her Heights-inspired directorial debut, Frances O'Connor takes a road much less travelled, opting to tell the story not of Cathy and Heathcliff but of their brilliant creator.

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