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‘Bored by all the sex and violins’: readers on Wuthering Heights film

Reaction to Emerald Fennell’s movie adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi

The Guardian - UK

“Wuthering Heights” Is Criticized For How Different It Is From the Book. So What Are Those Differences?

There were a lot of liberties taken.

The Mary Sue

Wuthering Heights has torn the Independent’s culture desk apart

OFFICE POLITICS: Are you currently distrusting your friends and loved ones due to their feelings about Emerald Fennell’s garish bodice-ripper? Then you are not alone! Here at ‘The Independent’, ‘Wuthering Heights’ has left us more divided than ever. So, in the interest of healing, we asked eight of our writers…

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Wuthering Heights is at its heart a story of class and race. Emerald Fennell has got it all wrong

By turning the novel into just a corset-heaving love story, the director has stripped it of what made it so boundary-pushing, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

The Guardian - UK

Wuthering Heights Earned Back Its $113M Budget In 48 Hours & That’s On Horniness

Critics, be damned, I guess!

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Are the costumes for Wuthering Heights accurate? No. Are they magnificent? Absolutely yes

Even before the film’s release, the costumes for Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights caused controversy.

The Conversation

Every generation gets the Wuthering Heights it deserves. And Emerald Fennell’s is for the always-online

Packed cinemas testify to the allure of Emily Brontë’s tale, even if this latest retelling is not to everyone’s taste, says Guardian arts and culture correspondent Nadia Khomami

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Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights is big movie with a very small mind

The maximalist adaptation of the gothic romance shows great interest in production design but very little in character

The Guardian - US

What to Stream: Emma Thompson, Jennifer Garner, 'The Night Agent,' Dove Cameron and Hilary Duff

The Emma Thompson-led thriller “Dead of Winter” and Hilary Duff’s first full-length album in 11 years are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you

The Independent UK

Wuthering Heights Ending: Margot Robbie Reveals What She Thinks Cathy's Last Words To Heathcliff Would've Been

Margot Robbie and Emerald Fennell weigh in on the movie's ending.

Cinemablend

Wuthering Heights Review: A Thick Fog Of Hot, Filthy Melodrama Smogs Up Margot Robbie’s Latest Film

Emerald Fennell’s latest is artful but flawed.

Cinemablend

Wuthering Heights director defends significant changes made in adaptation of beloved classic

Emerald Fennell’s period drama stars Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie as Heathcliff and Catherine

The Independent UK

Don’t fall in love this Valentine’s Day – read Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights is back in the news and racing up the bestseller lists, thanks to a new film version by the provocative director Emerald Fennell, starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi. The film is marketing Wuthering Heights as “the world’s greatest love story”.

The Conversation

‘I loved it!’: Brontë museum staff praise racy Wuthering Heights film

Staff at Brontë Parsonage Museum in Howarth embrace Emerald Fennell’s sex-laced take, while Emily Brontë’s most recent biographer calls BDSM version ‘a lot of fun’

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Reason

Wuthering Heights Is a Kinky, Revisionist Fever Dream

A problematic hyperpop romance that collides with the manosphere

Total Film

Ignore its disappointing Rotten Tomatoes score, Emerald Fennell's controversial Wuthering Heights works because it's like a half-remembered dream

Big Screen Spotlight | Emerald Fennell's "Wuthering Heights" is the novel as a hazy memory

The Guardian - UK

Charli xcx: Wuthering Heights review – atonal, amorous anthems that more than stand apart from the film

Casting off her Bratty cigarettes and sunglasses, the pop visionary channels the torments of Heathcliff and Cathy and the tumult of the Velvet Underground on her latest captivating pivot

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Wuthering Heights actress Margot Robbie reveals the celebrity crush she would've 'risked it all' for

Margot Robbie has told how she would've "risked it all" for Lord of Rings character Aragon as a 16-year-old, and admitted she must have "a type" after likening his look to her Wuthering Heights character Cathy's lover Heathcliff.

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Is Jacob Elordi really what Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights should look like?

Bad boy Heathcliff is described as ethnically ambiguous and ‘dark’ in the novel, yet is played by a pretty straightforward white Australian Elordi

Euronews

Euronews Culture's Film of the Week: “Wuthering Heights”: A horny and vapid take on Brontë's classic

Director Emerald Fennell guts one of the most emotionally violent novels ever written for a surface-level flirtation with corset kink that's as vapid as it is bafflingly tame.

Tom’s Guide

‘Wuthering Heights’ is a visual beauty with intense yearning — but ultimately leaves a sour note

Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi star in Emerald Fennell’s film adaptation of “Wuthering Heights,” which follows a tumultuous romance that spirals into obsession.

The Independent UK

Aimee Lou Wood lends her voice to audiobook of Wuthering Heights – here’s where to listen

Revisit Emily Brontë’s classic in audio form ahead of the movie’s release

Marie Claire

How Different Is Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” Compared to Emily Brontë’s Book?

The director made it clear it's far from an exact retelling

Cinemablend

We Did Not See Jacob Elordi Referencing Jackass Coming When We Asked About Wuthering Heights' Viral One-Arm Lift

The Wuthering Heights stars caution audiences.

Total Film

Saltburn director's controversial Wuthering Heights movie starring Margot Robbie is set to win Valentine's Day weekend with a $70 million debut

Someone should queue up that Kate Bush song

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