Emerald Fennell’s film is not interested in the racial commentary many critics have found in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights.
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Fennell’s Wuthering Heights turns a gothic tragedy into erotica for the TikTok generation. It’s terrifying for all the wrong reasons.
Costume designer Jacqueline Durran draws on 500 years of fashion to create a totally new visual world.
Heathcliff sneeringly rejected the idea he was ‘a hero of romance’ – though the new film claims Wuthering Heights as the greatest love story of all time. Is it?
If any filmmaker has demonstrated their ability to sit comfortably with the darker sides of human nature, it is Emerald Fennell.
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Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King's College London
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