As we mentioned a few days ago our review of Wuthering Heights 2009 is now online on the
PBS- Remotely Connected website.
It is ten years since the last adaptation of Wuthering Heights (in the meantime, the novel was adapted by the MTV in 2003, which is self-explanatory as to the output, and the Italian RAI in 2004 with frosty results, not just due to the amount of snow shown there). This new co-production of Mammoth Screen with WGBH/Boston, written by Peter Bowker and directed by Coky Giedroyc, is clearly more ambitious than the 1998 one.
The first noticeable aspect is that 'unreliable' narrators, as they have sometimes been termed, Lockwood and Nelly are abandoned in favour of an impromptu flashback a few minutes into the series, which opens with the second generation. We soon meet the young Catherine, together with Edgar and Linton Heathcliff, both of them making a good display of the so-called 'costume drama cough' and other similar tale-telling costume drama afflictions like shortness of breath. The absence of the intermediate figure of the narrator (or narrators) is a key element in the tone of the film. The mythical element is replaced by a more earthly approach.
Thanks to Jeannine Harvey for giving us this opportunity and Laurel Ann from
AustenProse and Olivia Wong
of WGBH for putting in our name.
Categories: Movies-DVD-TV, Wuthering Heights
As we mentioned a few days ago our review of Wuthering Heights 2009 is now online on the PBS- Remotely Connected website.
Oh God, i'm worried about the last shot now. I've manage to see the first episode now. I did enjoy it. Although, some of the changes didn't sit well with me. The way they did the Cathy speech, with the conversation with Heathcliff before hand was the strangest bit for me. But, it was definitly an interesting version.
ReplyDeleteWhat's up with the the last scene then? Is it over the top. Or, Goed forbid has Cathy's ghost going off with Edgar?
That was a good review. I've seen it now too. I preety much agreed with your review. Some of the changes worked, some didn't. Cathy was written much too nice for my liking, but, i still liked Charlotte Riley. Although, i think Tom is now my favourite Heathcliff. Even if he doesn't look much like the character.
ReplyDeleteOverall, i thought it was a decent version. Still not that definitive one that we've all been waiting for though.
Anonymous: we have already spoiled the second part enough, so you'll just have to wait and see the last shot for yourself. And who knows, you may even like it ;)
ReplyDeleteFaye: I'm glad to hear you have seen it and quite liked it. We may all have been waiting for the definituve version, but the more versions I watch the more utopical that seems to me.
Congratulations Cristina. Great job!
ReplyDeleteCheers, Laurel Ann