The actual tragedy of the Brontës' lives

Dewsbury Reporter announces that,

Spen Valley’s illustrious list of artists, musicians, poets and authors - including the Brontë sisters and Roger Hargreaves - will be celebrated at Cleckheaton Library as part of Heritage Open Days this weekend. (Adam Cheshire)

Aleteia (in Spanish) reviews Frances O'Connor's Emily.

Pero no nos equivoquemos: con ese retrato imaginario y especulativo Frances O’Connor ha conseguido rodar una buena película, en la línea de otros biopics que ponen en juego la imaginación y se desvían un poco de los hechos, caso de Rocketman (y Elton John), Last Days (y Kurt Cobain), Adiós, Christopher Robin (y A. A. Milne) o Loving Vincent (y Van Gogh), por citar algunas. 

O’Connor es capaz de seducirnos con un personaje grandioso, que oscila siempre entre polos opuestos: su misantropía y sus ganas de pasión, su fe y sus dudas, su acatamiento de las normas propias de las mujeres de aquel tiempo y sus ganas de gritar que necesita libertad de pensamiento, su necesidad de escribir y su negativa a seguir haciéndolo. Ella misma se denomina, en el filme, «un pez raro». 

Algunos de los momentos más significativos transcurren cuando la poeta en ciernes habla con su hermano Branwell y con el reverendo Weightman. Conversan sobre la fe ciega y sobre poesía, citan a Shelley hablando de Dios y se permiten escapar un poco de los rígidos protocolos de la época. O’Connor, así, logra transmitirnos la esencia de Cumbres Borrascosas mediante la pasión de su autora y el dolor y la complejidad de «amar y ser amada». De fondo, la poderosa y sensual música compuesta por Abel Korzeniowski. (José Ángel Barrueco) (Translation)

IndieWire hits on the actual tragedy of the Brontës' lives:

Despite being remembered as some of the most prominent voices of 19th century British literature, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë lived lives beset by misfortune. All three siblings were under the age of eight when their mother died of cancer, and they lost two other sisters to a typhoid epidemic in elementary school. And despite her brilliance, Emily died of tuberculosis at the age of 30, never getting a chance to witness the mainstream popularity of “Wuthering Heights.” But those inconveniences pale in comparison to the tragedy that still casts a leaden shadow over their bleak lives: all three sisters lived and died without seeing Ben Affleck’s 2023 film “Air.” (Christian Zilko)

Cineuropa reviews Hanna Slak's film Kleine Wort, which is described as

a modern parent-child take on Wuthering Heights, with the landscape serving as a symbol of solace, liberation, confinement and decline. The weather mirrors the mental states of upheaval, latent anxiety, despair, trauma and redemption. This stormy natural backdrop, highlighting both the controllable and out-of-control aspects of human existence, is palpably captured by seasoned cinematographer Claire Mathon. (Martin Kudláč)

India Today reviews the book Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent in which

The son grows up with phrases like "don't cry like a girl", and at the age of eight, he is given ‘Jane Eyre’ and told: "It's written by a woman, but you'll see what I mean." (Pallavi)

Doppiozero (Italy) features Wuthering Heights.