And I wanted to have that same feeling in the film for the audience.” Humble beginningsīorn in 1818, Emily was the daughter of Irish clergyman Patrick Brontë and his English wife, Maria Branwell. … She creates this gorgeous, Gothic, dark world, where people are violent and angry and in love and have deep emotions, and that’s very alive. You can feel that when you read her book. “I love that, and I think Emily would love that, because it’s an active creative process, and that’s something she really believed in.
“I’m letting her have moments that are very truthfully biographical and moments that are kind of heightened and from my imagination, from my research,” O’Connor adds.
Drawn to the rebellious nature of the characters, she appreciated that Emily herself was “a quiet rebel in a lot of ways.” While acknowledging that the movie’s blend of fact and fiction may seem “deliberately provocative” (the relationship with Weightman is particularly ahistorical), O’Connor says she hopes her protagonist’s indomitable spirit resonates with viewers. O’Connor, who wrote and directed the film, read Wuthering Heights when she was 15 and instantly fell in love with it. As IndieWire critic David Ehrlich writes, “Invented splashes of rebellion and romance only add to the ecstatic truth that Emily brings to its windswept tale of a stultified woman survived by her inner strength.” Is Emily based on a true story?Īrriving in theaters in the United States on Friday, February 17, Emily merges the drama of Wuthering Heights with shades of biographical truth.
The pair’s secret romance blossoms into an encounter both thrilling and tragic. Soon, Emily begins taking French lessons from her father’s assistant curate, the serious-minded William Weightman (Oliver Jackson-Cohen). While her sisters, Charlotte (Alexandra Dowling) and Anne (Amelia Gething), accept teaching positions outside of the home, Emily and their brother, Branwell (Fionn Whitehead), are left behind. A reclusive young woman, the fictionalized Emily (played by Emma Mackey of “ Sex Education”) struggles to find her footing both within and beyond her family.
Yet the woman behind the book remains elusive, the details of her short life (she died in 1848 at age 30) shrouded in inscrutability.Įmily, a new film from actress and director Frances O’Connor, attempts to unravel some of these mysteries by exploring the events that inspired its titular character to write Wuthering Heights. More than 175 years after its publication, Wuthering Heights is a beloved literary classic.
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