Wuthering Heights review: Margot Robbie, Jacob Elordi are miscast in Emerald Fennell’s mockery of Emily Brontë’s classic
Wuthering Heights review Cast: Margot Robbie, Jacob Elordi, Hong Chau, Alison Oliver, Owen Cooper Director: Emerald Fennell Rating: ★ ‘I did not feel as if I were in the company of my own species,’ is how Heathcliff is described by Nelly in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, which was first published in 1847. Be the work of a visionary or divine, there is little space for anyone to question the fact that in Heathcliff, Brontë created a figure of extreme contradictions. The book itself is a rush of maddening emotion, possessing the fury and rage of a volcano, one that refuses to obey. The new adaptation, directed by Academy Award-winner Emerald Fennell, demands obedience. In doing so, it commits the error not only of discarding the gigantic obligation of adaptation but also of making an utter mess of it. Wuthering Heights review: Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie in a scene from Emerald Fennell’s film. (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP) (AP) A pointless version At Wuthering Heights, Young Cathy Earnshaw (Charlotte Mellington) grows fond of the new …
