Emily. US Trailer and Poster

Next February 17th, Frances O'Connor's Emily will be premiered in the US. Bleecker Street is the distributor and has just released the US trailer and poster:

Many US outlets talk about it:

"Freedom in thought!!" Say it louder. Louder!! Bleecker Street has debuted the official US trailer for Emily, a fresh Emily Brontë biopic made by actress / filmmaker Frances O'Connor making her feature directorial debut. This first premiered at TIFF last year, and already opened in the UK in October - we posted the first trailer last year for it. Emily imagines the transformative, exhilarating, and uplifting journey to womanhood of a rebel and a misfit, one of the world's most famous, enigmatic, and provocative writers who died too soon at the age of 30. Delve into the mind that wrote "Wuthering Heights" – "so begins a journey to channel her creative potential into one of the greatest novels of all time." Young actress Emma Mackey (from "Sex Education" and Death on the Nile) stars as Emily, with Alexandra Dowling, Amelia Gething, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Adrian Dunbar, & Gemma Jones. I've heard mixed reviews on this film, some love it, some don't, so it's up to you depending on how much you're into Brontë and her writing. (Alex Billington in Firstshowing)

 We’ll freely admit it. English period-piece films about troubled poets feel kinda played and predictable, and dreary. But from all accounts, the new movie “Emily” about famous poet Emily Brontë and the events that inspired her seminal novel, “Wuthering Heights,” is a big winner. The film is the directorial debut of veteran actor turned filmmaker Frances O’Connor, known for starring in Steven Spielberg’s “A.I.: Artificial Intelligence,” which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival last fall, and critics raved, including ours. (Edward Davis in The Playlist)

 For anyone who’s taken a high school English course in the last fifty years, they’re probably familiar with Wuthering Heights, the seminal novel by British author Emily Brontë. A story of love, devotion — both good and bad — and loss, the novel has long outlasted its author, who died tragically at the age of thirty. But what do we know of Brontë herself? Writer-director Frances O’Connor seeks to answer that question with her new film, Emily, whose first trailer speaks of a story of becoming, rebelling against the thousands of odds set against women of Brontë's time. (Maggie Boccella in Collider)

Emma Mackey reaches new heights as ill-fated author Emily Brontë.
Set during the events that inspired “Wuthering Heights,” Frances O’Connor’s directorial debut “Emily” reimagines Brontë’s brush with love, embarking on an epic romance. Fionn Whitehead, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Alexandra Dowling, Adrian Dunbar, and Amelia Gething also star in the feature from Bleecker Street. (Samantha Bergeson in Indiewire)

Get ready to see a whole new side of Emily Brontë. On February 17, Emily, a new film from writer-director Frances O'Connor and starring Emma Mackey as Brontë will be released by Bleecker Street in the U.S.—and it isn't what you might expect.
Instead of being a traditional biopic, Emily —which features a cast including Olivier Jackson-Cohen and Fionn Whitehead—tells an imaginative, magical, and eccentric story about the writer before she became a legend. (Adam Rather in Town & Country)

Not in the US but in Norway, Dagbladet reviews the film:

 Heldigvis finnes det gode argumenter for å se «Emily», det beste er kanskje den halvmørke atmosfæren. Sola skinner sjelden, til gjengjeld gjør filmen god nytte av gråværet over de vidstrakte Yorkshire-slettene, der lyden av fugler, vind og regn skaper en slags natur-gotisk stemning. (...)

Regissør Frances O’Connor (som i likhet med «Little Women»-skaper Greta Gerwig har bakgrunn som skuespiller) har uansett begått en oppsiktsvekkende debutfilm. Selv om store deler av handlingen er fiksjon og mytologisering, skaper «Emily» betimelig fascinasjon og nysgjerrighet på kvinnen bak et av de viktigste verkene i engelskspråklig litteratur. (Einar Aarvig) (Translation)

 Or in Brazil:

O único trecho do longa que não é baseado na vida real da autora é o relacionamento com William Weightman. Claramente um artifício narrativo para se encaixar nos padrões do gênero e agradar o público alvo. O personagem de Jackson-Cohen é sem graça e apenas mais do mesmo. O filme gasta bastante tempo focando no casal e deixando outras coisas de lado, como a luta contra o mundo patriarcal das editoras que creditaram o livro como de autoria de Ellis Bell, pois soava mais como um nome masculino.

A personagem da Emily por si só e a relação com sua família já seriam tramas interessantes o suficiente para carregarem o filme sozinhos. Mas a moda do "enemy to lovers” e a mania de Hollywood de fazer tudo ser uma nova versão de algo que já fez sucesso tornam o roteiro menos original. (Luis Fim in Folha de Pernambuco) (Translation)

 ‘Emily’ não é uma mera cinebiografia, mas uma exaltação do que significa ter medo de alcançar os sonhos por falhas com as expectativas dos outros. Se você tiver a oportunidade de ir ao cinema assistir ao filme, garanto que não vai se arrepender – e pode ser que você se apaixone pela história de Emily Brontë assim como este que vos escreve. (Thiago Nolla in CinePop) /(Translation)

Also in Jornal do Comercio, Acontece en Petrópolis, Sete Segundos,  Estadão, Correio Popular, Midianinja (Brazil), Women and Hollywood, Hammertonail, El Español (Spain), Crumpe (France), Everyeye (Italy)...

And now, for some non-Emily-the-film mentions:

Music Grotto lists songs that make you feel like a villain. For some reason, Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights is on it:

25. Wuthering Heights – Kate Bush

In her 1978 song, Wuthering Heights, British songstress Kate Bush took on the delightfully unhinged persona of Catherine Earnshaw from Emily Brontë’s novel. The song is extra spooky, as it presents Catherine as a ghost haunting the grounds of Wuthering Heights, calling for her lover to come find her on the English moor.

Trouw (Netherlands) reviews the essay Pleidooi voor pulp by Kees ’t Hart:

Volgens ’T Hart fungeert Charlotte Brontës ‘geweldige’ Jane Eyre in dit genre als het oerboek en haar Mr Rochester als het prototypische object van verlangen: de arrogante, ­dominante man die getemd moet worden.  (...)

Ergens stapt ’T Hart me wat te makkelijk over die clichés heen, als hij schrijft over lezers die heus het verschil tussen echte en gedroomde liefde kennen; vrouwen als zijn moeder die in die verhalen aan een saai huisvrouwenleven ontsnapten. Ook dat hij de boeken zelf nu al decennia niet meer leest, rijmt niet helemaal met zijn pleidooi, hoe amusant en geestdriftig ook opgeschreven. Mij leverde die paar jaar van eindeloos romannetjes lezen achteraf wél het gevoel op dat ik licht bedwelmd de wereld instapte. Veel gelezen, niks begrepen. Dat kwam daarna pas, toen ik meer meemaakte en betere, psychologisch scherpere romans ging lezen. Jane Eyre bijvoorbeeld, zeker drie keer. (Jann Ruyters) (Translation)

LiveUniCT (Italy) recommends reads for 2023:

Cime Tempestose

 Definito dalla critica del tempo un “romanzo brutale e rozzo“, Cime tempestose di Emily Brontë è considerato da molti una delle migliori opere della letteratura inglese. È la storia senza tempo dell’amore tormentato e indistruttibile di Catherine per due uomini, il ribelle Heathcliff e il raffinato Edgar. (Ilaria Mirenna) (Translation)

The best 2022 theatre productions on the northern coast of California are listed by the Times-Standard. The chamber version of the Gordon & Caird Jane Eyre. The Musical seen in Eureka last May is listed. And now that the Christmas season is over, Valentine's frenzy begins. CountryLiving publishes "Best Valentine's Day Captions for Instagram That Are Cute and Funny" and a Wuthering Heights one is to be found. 

Base D'Asta (in Italian) traces parallels between Wuthering Heights and a painting by Maurice De Vlaminck.