Love, Loss and Longing

The Sun talks about last Friday's episode of Jeopardy!:

Andrew then landed on the other remaining Daily Double.

With $16.8K, he again bet: "All of it," without a second of pause, and the crowd hushed.

Host Ken said: "I did not think you were gonna say that."

It read: "'Haworth Churchyard' was Matthew Arnold's tribute to these literary sisters, written soon after the last one passed."

Andrew was again correct with "The Brontë Sisters" and after two all-in Daily Double bets, had $33.6K. (Kylie Parham)

Redbrick publishes a 9 out of 10 review of Emily: 

Emma Mackey is breathtaking as the protagonist in this darkly thrilling new reimagining of author Emily Brontë’s life. A tale of love and loss and longing, director Frances O’Connor has made a truly sensational debut, drawing strongly on the gothic elements of Brontë’s only novel Wuthering Heights with its bleak and haunting cinematography. The film was shot on location at the parsonage where the sisters grew up in Haworth, Yorkshire, and the focus on the surrounding nature is a key element of the film, with the repeated visuals of the moors and trees throughout almost becoming a background character. It is easy to see why the Brontë siblings were so artistically inspired. (...)

Emily is a powerful piece of cinema, albeit with a rather abrupt ending – although the opening shot arguably rescues this by establishing a final destination for the narrative from the very beginning of the film. Perfect for the bleak autumnal months as we head into winter, O’Connor’s first film as a director is a triumph, and Emma Mackey deserves critical acclaim for her spellbinding performance. (Milly Haire)

Hipertextual (Spain) also shares the enthusiasm for the film:

La directora intenta que su personaje se consuma en la necesidad de expresarse y otras tantas que la dejan aislada y solitaria. Es un mundo rudo, fundamentalmente misógino y, además, violento. Emily deberá lidiar contra ese espacio helado de indiferencia que la rodea con los pocos recursos que se encuentran a su disposición. 

Uno de ellos es la conciencia de que tiene talento para escribir, que necesita hacerlo para comprender los espacios más dolorosos de su mente. Pero esta biografía, que reimagina a la escritora de Cumbres Borrascosas como una heroína trágica semejante a la de sus novelas, es un triunfo de recursos.

También un trayecto elegante y bien construido por una época de feroz oposición al talento femenino. Todo en medio de una puesta en escena cuidadosa y frugal, más cercana a lo teatral que a lo cinematográfico. Una combinación que, en manos menos hábiles, podría haber resultado fallida, pero que en las de O’Connor resulta un ensayo visual sobre el dolor, la voluntad y la belleza. (Aglaia Berlutti) (Translation)

The Critic talks about the novel Blackstone Fell by Martin Edwards:

Set in 1930, but with echoes of the Baskerville Dartmoor-London interplay, Blackstone “makes Wuthering Heights look like Blackpool beach” and includes “an abandoned cave dwelling, a dangerous stretch of river, a sinister tower, an asylum on the moors, and deadly marshland. Not to mention a history of mysterious vanishings from a Jacobean gatehouse”. (Jeremy Black)

The Sunday Times explores the story that inspired the new film The Silent Twins:

In the early 1980s, from an untidy shared bedroom in a terraced house on an RAF estate in southwest Wales, teenage identical twins June and Jennifer Gibbons set about becoming literary stars. The Pembrokeshire county town of Haverfordwest lacked the romance of Brontë country, but like those literary siblings, the Gibbons twins were industrious. (Phoebe Luckhurst)

Le Nouvel Observateur (France) reviews the recent documentary Les Hauts de Hurlevent, amour haine et vengeance:

Un documentaire qui explore avec justesse les aspects méconnus et perturbants du livre culte d’Emily Brontë. (...)

Jusqu’à inspirer un tube à la chanteuse Kate Bush. Mais comme le remarque Lucasta Miller, biographe des Brontë, le film de Wyler fait l’impasse sur les aspects les plus perturbants du livre : la violence de classe, le sadisme, que souligne le cinéaste japonais Kijû Yoshida en citant Georges Bataille, et l’origine de Heathcliff, ce personnage « noir comme le jais et le feu ». Il est ainsi rappelé que Liverpool fut un port négrier et que les débats sur l’abolition de l’esclavage faisaient rage quand Emily Brontë écrivait son roman. Bien plus qu’une histoire d’amour, conclut avec justesse le documentaire, « les Hauts de Hurlevent » contient tout ce qui minait la société victorienne. Et c’est ce qui en fait un vrai et grand roman du scandale. (Elisabeth Philippe) (Translation)

Spielfim (Germany) also discusses the documentary. 

The Huffington Post (Spain) interviews two Spanish writers Luz Gabás and Cristina Campos:

Elena Santos: ¿Creéis que empieza a importar el deseo femenino?
C.C: Están personajes como Jane Eyre, Madame Bovary, Anna Karenina... ya se ha hablado. Las escritoras francesas lo hacen mucho, el desnudarse psíquicamente, hablar del deseo desde la verdad. Aquí cuesta un poco más, encontrarlo en la literatura española. (Translation)

Культура and Film.ru (Russia) talk about Emily, the film that will be premiered in Russia on November 17. 2nd from Bottom reviews the Wise Children's Wuthering Heights production as seen on TV.