A contributor to
RTÉ has picked her 'Top 10 movies of 2022' and one of them is
8. Emily
An impressive directorial debut from Frances O'Connor that reimagines the life of one of the world’s most famous authors, Emily Brontë. An electrifying performance from Emma Mackey as Emily, a woman who is full of conflict, a woman ahead of her time and yet one who seeks the approval of her father, played by Adrian Dunbar. The author of Wuthering Heights is portrayed as a rebel and misfit. As she finds her voice and writes the literary classic, Emily explores the relationships that inspired her – her sisters, her beloved brother and her first forbidden love. It’s a visually arresting sumptuous, passionate affair. (Aedín Gormley)
The Georgian-German author Nino Haratischvili is clearly enamoured with the tradition of the brooding 19th-century novel. The Eighth Life, her multigenerational 900-page opus about a Georgian family, was published in 2019 to great acclaim, huge sales and comparisons with Chekhov and Tolstoy. And now My Soul Twin, the second of her novels to be translated from the German, is a modern take on Wuthering Heights. (Christian House)
A columnist from
The Telegraph (India) is not in favour of colour-blind casting.
Instead, she fell into the trap of pretending not that physical differences don’t matter — which would have been morally justified if practically naïve — but that they don’t exist, which is absurd. That absurdity rules London’s West End theatre where one of several unmarried sisters in a Brontë story about a 19th-century county family can be a black girl dressed exactly like her peaches-and-cream debutante sisters. (Sunanda K. Datta-Ray)
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