Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte is one of The Best Books of All Time as complied by the most significant writers for The Bokklubben, it is also one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, and it is also ranked 15th on The Greatest Books of All Time site…notwithstanding all that, it is not one of my favorites, and the recent adaptation for the big screen written and directed by Emerald Fennell does not help at all – you find thousands of reviews of magnum opera from the aforementioned lists, plus notes on films from The New York times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube page, in case you are interested

 

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte is one of The Best Books of All Time as complied by the most significant writers for The Bokklubben, it is also one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, and it is also ranked 15th on The Greatest Books of All Time site…notwithstanding all that, it is not one of my favorites, and the recent adaptation for the big screen written and directed by Emerald Fennell does not help at all – you find thousands of reviews of magnum opera from the aforementioned lists, plus notes on films from The New York times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube page, in case you are interested

 

7 out of 10

 

Wuthering Heights https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/12/wuthering-heights-by-emily-bronte.html is a compelling, classic chef d’oeuvre, a newer site, for The Greatest Books of All Time, which uses smart algorithms, presumably looking over the net at the most important charts, has placed this novel as high as the fifteenth place

 

The caveat is that one will come with (too) high expectations, besides, there are things in the magnum opus that surely disagree with a number of readers, Cathy comes back as a ghost – though not in the most recent adaptation…by the way, this note refers to the movie more, though I am not sure what the percentage would be

Emerald Fennell has adapted Wuthering Heights, and has eliminated a part of it, which is not the main issue I have here, she is an extremely talented film maker https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/03/saltburn-screenplay-by-emerald-fennell.html Saltburn proves that

 

Saltburn may be going a bit far for conservative – maybe reactionary, passe, retrograde – cinephiles like yours truly, Barry Keoghan has the leading role (this thespian is surely going to take a couple of Oscars in the future) and he performs cunnilingus on a menstruating character and then licks the last drops from the bath where another had been…

The trouble with Fennell’s Wuthering Heights is that the acting does not overwhelm – this being a personal view, it is flawed, albeit critics did not like it either, the Metascore is a paltry 55 – it feels false, especially for Margot Robbie, who is on top of her game, what with the success of Barbie, a fantastic achievement

 

‘Denis Diderot's "Paradox of the Actor" argues that great actors should not experience the emotions they portray, but rather display them through skill and control…Diderot presents a revolutionary theory of acting. He posits that great actors must possess judgment and intellectual control over their emotions, rather than being swayed by them

That is not from https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/04/jacques-le-fataliste-by-denis-diderot.html Jacques Le Fataliste, but the latter is also included in the above mentioned Best 100 Books of All Time list…there are lavish settings in this film, however, that contributes to the feeling of pomposity, inauthentic narrative

 

‘Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments’ this line from a Shakespeare sonnet  https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-sonnets-by-shakespeare-is-supposed.html may be relevant here, for something interferes and then that admirable, amorous feeling brings death and destruction

 

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