Wuthering Venice?

Next Thursday the Venice Film Festival will disclose its full line-up. As we have published before rumour has it that Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights will be there. Screen Daily seems to confirm it:

The 68th Venice Film Festival, which will announce its full lineup this Thursday, is shaping up to be a powerhouse event, with a competition lineup expected to include three keenly awaited UK titles - Tomas Alfredson’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Andrea Arnold’s Wuthering Heights and Steve McQueen’s Shame. (...)
Arnold’s Wuthering Heights - her third feature - features UK TV actress Kaya Scodelario as Cathy and unknown black actor James Howson as Heathcliff. (Mike Goodridge)

Variety reviews the Brazilian film Como Esquecer which contains Wuthering Heights references as we have posted several times before:

An evocative, unsentimental character study, helmer Malu de Martino's "So Hard to Forget" focuses on an English professor who completely shuts down after being dumped by her longtime lesbian lover. Despite her quasi-poetic musings and constant references to "Wuthering Heights," Martino's heroine is nobody's idea of a romantic: Dour and self-centered, she's unrecognizable as the laughing, curly-haired sprite she appears to be in flashbacks. Implicitly imprisoned within its protag's consciousness, the pic's purview widens almost imperceptibly as she is reluctantly drawn back into the world of the living. Results could blossom in gay and femme-centered venues. (Ronnie Scheib)

Screen Junkies lists Wide Sargasso Sea (1992? 2006?) as one of its ten sexy romance movies:

“Wide Sargasso Sea” is a foreboding mixture of colonialism and erotic obsession. Based on the novel of the same title, “Wide Sargasso Sea” takes place in the Caribbean during the 19th century and is a prequel to “Jane Eyre.” A sexy and romantic relationship develops between an English man and native woman that gives way to lustful encounters. (breakstudios)

Words, Scribbles and Passion interviews the author Gervase Phinn:

Much of your work is anecdotal, so could I just ask: How important is experiences when it comes to writing?
There’s a view that the Brontë’s were closeted away in some vicarage in Howarth (sic). That they never saw anything or did anything and they had this brilliant imagination. Well that’s not true. They were quite widely travelled, who were very interested in people. And when they entered the house, Patrick Brontë, the father, invited many different people. I think, my view is, you have to be very observational. You have to have different experiences.

The Times lists several writers/musicians/artists who died young and includes Anne Brontë (29) on the list.  The Times-Picayune lists Mia Wasikowska's as one of the best performances of this half-year in its Oscar Minor Nominations while Filmfan (in Czech) announces the upcoming premiere of the film in the Czech Republic, next July 28th. Peachy Reviews takes a look at the 1944 adaptation and Leituras Brontëanas does the same with Jane Eyre 1983 (in Portuguese). Week Journal has posted a few pictures about reading her novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall in Czech.Michael R. Allen publishes on Associated Content an article about the "Gothic Elements in Wuthering Heights"; Heroes and Hearbreakers suggests Toby Stephens's Rochester as a Professor X partenaire in an improbable Romantic Heroes meet Superheroes universe; Cocktail Hour is re-reading Wuthering Heights and Era Uma Vez and Things I love both post about the novel in Portuguese as well. Finally, the Brontë Sisters discusses Emily Brontë's religious beliefs.


Categories: Movies-DVD-TV, References, Wide Sargasso Sea, Wuthering Heights