September 6 at the Biennale

On the website of Venezia's Biennale, a summary and a statement from Andrea Arnold, director of Wuthering Heights 2011:

Wuthering Heights
6 September 17:00 - Sala Grande
7 September 15:15 - PalaBiennale

Director’s Statement
The novel by Emily Brontë is full of violence, death and cruelty. Living with that for the last eighteen months has been hard. I have been very grateful for the moors, the birds, the moths, the dogs and the sky. It’s been painful though and I might never make peace with this story. I am not sure I am supposed to. Not sure any of us are supposed to.
Synopsis
Based on Emily Brontë’s only novel, Wuthering Heights is a dark tale of passionate and thwarted love, sibling rivalry and revenge wreaked. A Yorkshire hill farmer on a visit to Liverpool finds a homeless boy, named Heathcliff, on the streets. He takes him home to live as part of his family on the isolated Yorkshire moors where the boy forges an obsessive relationship with the farmer’s daughter, Catherine. As the children grow, family members and neighbours are caught up in the family’s bitter games fuelled by overblown egos. Though ostensibly a costume drama, the story lends itself to contemporary themes such as racism and dependency, whilst touching on perennial ones such as jealousy, hatred of the other, love and the family. Set in the wild Yorkshire countryside, the landscape is at once the ideal backdrop and one of the major protagonists of this cruel and passionate story.

Categories: Movies-DVD-TV, Wuthering Heights