It’s the kind of all-consuming love that will drive you mad, transform you into a vengeful monster and possibly endure beyond the grave. To my tender teenage heart, this seemed deeply romantic when I first encountered Wuthering Heights at school.
I was hardly alone in feeling so struck by Emily Brontë’s classic novel. Emerald Fennell, the film-maker behind a new big-screen reimagining of the book, starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, has taken a selective approach to the source material but hasn’t skimped on its intensity. “What I wanted to make was something that distilled the feeling that I had when I was 14, when I read it,” she explains in a promotional interview. “It’s what it is to be in love to a catastrophic degree.”
