The
Norfolk Film Examiner has compiled a list of 'films to slit your wrists by'. Number 1 of the list is... Wuthering Heights.
Wuthering Heights #1
The family of Catherine as a child takes in Heathcliff. They grow up together on the estate of Wuthering Heights and know immediately that they are soul mates; an impenetrable love grows over the years and bonds their hearts. They both believe that nothing could ever break their connection. However, although they are both in love with each other, Catherine marries someone else. Heathcliff, heartbroken and bitter runs away from Wuthering Heights, now unkempt, run-down and no longer a happy home and returns a very wealthy man. Heathcliff buys the estate and marries another woman he doesn’t love in the least to spite Catherine for she has devastated his heart and ego.
Healthcliff learns that Catherine is deathly ill and becomes crueler to his wife, angry that she is not Catherine. Catherine calls for Heathcliff on her death-bead and she dies shortly thereafter. Regardless of Heathcliff’s newfound wealth, he has nothing to live for and he dies as well. The end.
This film is beautifully written, performed and impossible to watch without a box of tissue and a hole forming in the gut. On the upside, it is implied that Catherine’s ghost takes Heathcliff and they reunite happily in the afterlife. (Renee Roland)
Judging by the picture that accompanies the article, we believe it refers to the 1939 Hollywood adaptation.
The
Leicester Mercury reviews a performance of the band
Birdeatsbaby.
"They sounded to me like a group of spurned Sunday school teachers exacting their musical revenge; joyless, devoid of warmth, often shrill - ie, all the annoying aspects of Wuthering Heights without any of the mad sensuality," was the verdict of one writer.
As is usually the case lately, the blog front is livelier than the news front: Jane Eyre is reviewed by
Welcome to My World,
Jazzster Reviews and
My Dear Book.
The Back and Visible Things posts about
Sparkhouse. And
Savidge Reads has just got
Jude Morgan's The Taste of Sorrow in the post.
Categories: Movies-DVD-TV, Music, Wuthering Heights
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