Screen Daily spotlights the key international premieres at TIFF 2022 and one of them is
Emily (UK)
Dir. Frances O’Connor
UK-born and Australia-raised actress O’Connor is known for literary period roles such as Fanny Price in Mansfield Park (1999) and Emma Bovary in Madame Bovary (2000). Fittingly, she makes her directing debut with this self-penned drama about Wuthering Heights author Emily Brontë, starring Emma Mackey in a cast that includes Fionn Whitehead and Oliver Jackson-Cohen. Emily, which opens Platform, is lead produced by Piers Tempest, David Barron and Robert Connolly. Warner Bros has UK and select other rights, releasing in UK and Ireland cinemas on October 14.
Contact: Embankment Films
A contributor to
SaltWire discusses the premieres at TIFF too.
Other literary adaptations include The Hummingbird , from the novel by Sandro Veronesi; Butcher’s Crossing , based on John Williams’ western; and All Quiet on the Western Front , the third film adaptation of the 1929 novel by Erich Maria Remarque. Not to mention Emily , about the life of author Emily Brontë. (Chris Knight)
Other British hopes include the Working Title romantic comedy What’s Love Got to Do With It starring Lily James and Emma Thompson, an Emily Brontë biopic called Emily starring Sex Education’s Emma Mackey. . . (Benjamin Lee)
A haunting drama delivering a tale of desire and creativity in 19th Century England, Emily is the directorial debut of British-Australian Frances O’Connor and offers a captivating portrait of Wuthering Heights author Emily Brontë.
And the lineup for Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF) (September 22 - October 2) also includes
Emily as seen on
The Gauntlet.
This year’s festival features a slew of films highlighting and empowering women of all ages. From films like Frances O’Connor’s directorial debut Emily — a biographical film about Emily Brontë and how she wrote Wuthering Heights — to Maïmouna Doucouré’s Hawa — the story of a 15-year old girl’s quest to meet Michelle Obama — the lineup has no shortages of films by women to help their characters find their voices. (Sheroog Kubur)
And it will also be part of the Dinard festival du film britannique (September 28 - October 2) in the rather cringeworthy section of 'Girl Power' as reported by
Rolling Stone France.
Emily (Frances O’Connor)
Section : Girl Power
La vie imaginaire de l’une des autrices les plus célèbres du monde, Emily Brontë.
Emily est le voyage initiatique, exaltant et édifiant d’une rebelle vers la maturité féminine. Explorant les relations qui l’ont ins- pirée – sa relation brute et passionnée avec ses sœurs Charlotte et Anne, son premier amour douloureux et interdit pour Weightman, et l’attention qu’elle porte à son frère Branwell, qu’elle idolâtre, le film dresse le portrait de l’une des écrivaines les plus énigmatiques et provocatrices du monde, disparue trop tôt, à l’âge de 30 ans.
(Translation)
More cinema as
Collider interviews Samantha Morton who played Jane in
Jane Eyre 1997.
When you got the scripts, was there a moment where you read a line or a scene and you were like, "I have to play this"?
MORTON: I felt that before I read the scripts, and I just prayed to God the scripts were good, and they were very good. I thought it was very interesting how Justin managed to make it relatable. Because a lot of the times when you do ... I've played Jane Eyre, but again, that's based on a book. That's Charlotte Brontë. I've done Tom Jones, and again, it's a book. It's Fielding. (Carly Lane)
P: Hablando de papeles de ensueño, quiero decir que los has conseguido muy pronto, eras todavía una adolescente cuando protagonizaste películas de Jane Austen y Charlotte Brontë, lo que es realmente increíble, y ahora estás en esta. ¿Cómo fue tener un comienzo tan rápido como ese y cómo es actuar ahora en otra epopeya de época como esta?
- No se siente lo mismo porque no soy la misma. Tengo 45 años. Tengo tres hijos, uno de 22 años que también actúa. Soy una persona diferente y he vivido muchas vidas. Así que poder haber experimentado el aspecto juvenil de interpretar a Jane Eyre o a Harriet en
‘Emma’, y todos son papeles bastante significativos, ha sido increíble.
(María Estévez) (Translation)
Isthmus reviews American Players' take on Jen Silverman's
The Moors. Fans of the Brontë sisters and desolate English country manors will feel a familiar chill when the lights come up on American Players Theatre’s current production of The Moors. The slightly absurd, comically dark, sort-of period piece by Jen Silverman is a disorienting mix of gothic tropes turned sideways, the patriarchy turned upside-down, talking animals turned to romance, and a chiming clock that marks time in the 1840s, the present, and no time at all. Directed with icy precision by Keira Fromm, this startling play runs in the Touchstone Theatre through October 9. (Gwendolyn Rice)
Oprah Daily reviews Maggie O'Farrell's new novel
The Marriage Portrait. In the chilly winter of 1561, at the age of 16, Lucrezia rides with her husband on horseback to a lodge in a secluded forest, appeasing his whim. He’s a courtly Heathcliff: She both fears and adores him, the broad span of his shoulders, his handsome face and quirky humor. (Hamilton Cain)
The Mary Sue recommends 'The Best Romance Anime on Crunchyroll' including
Sweet Blue Flowers
For all the queer readers here starving for some tastefully gay romance, have I got an anime for you. Sweet Blue Flowers is a story focused on a high schooler named Akira Okudaira, who runs into her childhood friend Fumi Manjome after losing touch ten years ago. The two begin to work together on a dramatic adaptation of Wuthering Heights for a drama festival, and as one might expect, the two girls realize that they might be more than just “gal pals.” (Jack Doyle)
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