Wuthering Heights

  • 130'
  • UK
  • 2011

Andrea Arnold filmed Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights as the story was intended: dark and sensual. Words are barely audible, eyes see eyes, skin touches skin when no one is looking and the seething rain batters the windows. The heath outside is like an unknown land, where the mansions from Brontë's original story have been replaced by derelict farms, closed off from the world.

This eighteenth adaptation of the novel turns Heathcliff into even more of an outsider than he already was, as a result of casting the black actors Solomon Glave and James Howson as the young and older Heathcliff. The mood is more hostile than ever: the first time the kid appears, he gets spat in the face. Wuthering Heights was never about romantic love, Arnold stated in interviews, but about obsession. She managed to capture that obsession, that uninhibited, destructive energy.

  • 130'
  • UK
  • 2011
Director
Andrea Arnold
Country of production
UK
Year
2011
Festival Edition
IFFR 2012
Length
130'
Medium
35mm
Language
English
Producers
Robert Bernstein, Douglas Rae, Kevin Loader
Production Company
Ecosse Films
Sales
HanWay Films
Screenplay
Andrea Arnold, Olivia Hetreed, based on the novel by Emily Brontë
Cinematography
Robbie Ryan
Editor
Nicolas Chaudeurge
Production Design
Helen Scott
Sound Design
Nicholas Becker
Music
Mumford & Sons
Cast
Kaya Scodelario, James Howson
Local Distributor
Cinéart Netherlands
Website
http://ecossefilms.com/film/wuthering-heights
Director
Andrea Arnold
Country of production
UK
Year
2011
Festival Edition
IFFR 2012
Length
130'
Medium
35mm
Language
English
Producers
Robert Bernstein, Douglas Rae, Kevin Loader
Production Company
Ecosse Films
Sales
HanWay Films
Screenplay
Andrea Arnold, Olivia Hetreed, based on the novel by Emily Brontë
Cinematography
Robbie Ryan
Editor
Nicolas Chaudeurge
Production Design
Helen Scott
Sound Design
Nicholas Becker
Music
Mumford & Sons
Cast
Kaya Scodelario, James Howson
Local Distributor
Cinéart Netherlands
Website
http://ecossefilms.com/film/wuthering-heights