Emily (2022)
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/2.35:1 130m
Director: Frances O'Connor
Cast: Emma Mackey, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Fionn Whitehead, Alexandra Dowling
Synopsis:
As Emily Brontë grows up, she struggles to leave behind the fantasy world of childhood and confront the real one. Her uncompromising nature pulls her away from her sister Charlotte, and she finds emancipation in the company of her dissolute brother and in the arms of her father's new curate.
Review:
O'Connor's bodice-ripping variation on a theme last seen in Devotion (1946) is essentially an exploration of all the parts of Emily's soul that found their way into Wuthering Heights, and the novel positively leaps off the screen in a myriad incidents and images. Mackey is superb, conveying the inchoate passion and wanton bravado of a creative artist trapped between shyness and self-expression. The love adventure constitutes a freedom with documented truth, but is a potent postulation for the passion exuded in the pages of the book. Korzeniowski's music overlays an atmosphere of modernity at times present in the script, and the director avoids generic sedateness in both the framing and mise-en-scène.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/2.35:1 130m
Director: Frances O'Connor
Cast: Emma Mackey, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Fionn Whitehead, Alexandra Dowling
Synopsis:
As Emily Brontë grows up, she struggles to leave behind the fantasy world of childhood and confront the real one. Her uncompromising nature pulls her away from her sister Charlotte, and she finds emancipation in the company of her dissolute brother and in the arms of her father's new curate.
Review:
O'Connor's bodice-ripping variation on a theme last seen in Devotion (1946) is essentially an exploration of all the parts of Emily's soul that found their way into Wuthering Heights, and the novel positively leaps off the screen in a myriad incidents and images. Mackey is superb, conveying the inchoate passion and wanton bravado of a creative artist trapped between shyness and self-expression. The love adventure constitutes a freedom with documented truth, but is a potent postulation for the passion exuded in the pages of the book. Korzeniowski's music overlays an atmosphere of modernity at times present in the script, and the director avoids generic sedateness in both the framing and mise-en-scène.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/2.35:1 130m
Director: Frances O'Connor
Cast: Emma Mackey, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Fionn Whitehead, Alexandra Dowling
Synopsis:
As Emily Brontë grows up, she struggles to leave behind the fantasy world of childhood and confront the real one. Her uncompromising nature pulls her away from her sister Charlotte, and she finds emancipation in the company of her dissolute brother and in the arms of her father's new curate.
Review:
O'Connor's bodice-ripping variation on a theme last seen in Devotion (1946) is essentially an exploration of all the parts of Emily's soul that found their way into Wuthering Heights, and the novel positively leaps off the screen in a myriad incidents and images. Mackey is superb, conveying the inchoate passion and wanton bravado of a creative artist trapped between shyness and self-expression. The love adventure constitutes a freedom with documented truth, but is a potent postulation for the passion exuded in the pages of the book. Korzeniowski's music overlays an atmosphere of modernity at times present in the script, and the director avoids generic sedateness in both the framing and mise-en-scène.