Relentless adaptation of the haunting classic that gets almost everything right despite an inferior second half (the pace feels rushed and the older Heathcliff is vaguely out of place). Andrea Arnold, please adapt Jane Eyre next.

Unreal.

Andrea Arnold follows up Fish Tank with this stark, naturalistic take on the literary classic Wuthering Heights. It is beautifully shot and remains true to the book, while making intriguing changes. The 1939 William Wyler adaptation is still the better film, but this offers enough differences to stand on its own.

Hmmm. The whole film is suitably bleak and the young actors are fantastic. Some of the camera work works fantastically. On the other hand, that same camera work massively gets in the way sometimes, and the rack focus often looks very amateurish. The third act is a mess though, we never get a feel for Heathcliffe as a man, just a characture of desperation. I left pretty unsatisfied, but after sleeping on it the whole left a bleak and sad impression.

My first encounter with what I imagine is a superfluous adaptation of Brontë's celebrated novel that's at one time touching and utterly forgettable. There was something strikingly economical about the film's opening in its evocation of the novel's tumultuous passion with little dialogue and jolting shots of a stunningly desolate moorland. Yet a decidedly weak Howson and a more conventional 2nd act don't establish their ill-fated romance as a deep and complex love. *need to watch Wyler's version*

It looks and feels wonderful - just like you're there. It worked better in the childhood part, but still is amazing as a whole. Those HEIGHTS were really, really WUTHERING.

feels somehow as though it preceded the novel itself, sketching in blunt, violent brushstrokes what would later be refined into something formal, mannered... [Full Review]

ciftlik, siginti, besleme, zenci, zenci cocuk, iyi hristyan, arkadaslik, ask, cenaze, terk etmek, geri dönmek, dogumda ölen kadin, hasta olan kadin, iki ask arasinda kadin, ölüyle öpüsme, olagan üstü manzara, cok fazla yakin plan, ses zenginligi, antipatik kahraman, konusmayan kahraman, hikaye güzel sanat yapayim derken yazik etmis filme...

Visceral, elemental and often very beautiful, this is a really impressionistic take on what it must have been really like to love in this time and place. Superb.

An unusual, unflinching take on the classic novel. The short, often blunt scenes had a play-like feel to them, interspersed with shots of heathland and nature - though after a while this repetition went from thoughtful to a little irritating. However, this film is soaked in the harsh, dramatic geography of the Yorkshire moors, which I loved. That connection to the novel excused it from rather simplifying the central characters and not exploring fully the idea "what if Heathcliff was black?"

this movie balances the sharp edge between being beautiful to being wanky; between having an unanticipated pshychological depth to be hammering and samey; between being tasteful to the very most extreme of its antithesis. andrea arnold adds something to brontës classic, but also loses alot of what made it so special.

stunning (yet very cliche) photography and nothing else... boring, dull and predictable storytelling..last act is very rushed...

Arnold at her most vacuous, but still pretty good. At times the visuals are sentimentalized to the point of self parody. Lacking the narrative strength and human momentum of earlier features.

More than worth checking out for the cinematography. Glacially paced without feeling too drawn-out, the action is mostly going on in the faces and the body language. Unfortunately, if not totally void of emotion, it's certainly far from eliciting sympathy for its less-than-likeable characters. And what's with the animal cruelty?

Gets dangerously close to being a full-blown artwank stinker. Nothing much works in this overwrought, dull mess, but there's some nice photography (and some annoying showiness) and the kid playing young Heathciff was good. I was really ready to love it, but no. Hopefully Arnold redeems herself with her next film.

Original, moody and muddy adaptation. A little long drawn out it may have made more impact if it had been if edited down more severely.

The violent love story played out with gusto by a bunch of novice actors is a refreshing update which feels true, at least in spirit, to the source text. But Andrea Arnold doesn't seem to mind about performance or dialogue: her energy is transmitted through restless camerawork which fills each shot with a kinesis, abetted by wind, trees, animals and the rough natural surroundings. Yes, the final third is a mess, but for her visual prowess Arnold is becoming a visionary among British directors.

nisan 12, ist film fest & Wuthering Heights, özellikle mekan ve kamera kullanımı ile başlı başına bir duygu dünyası yaratmayı başarıyor. Filmin tek eksik noktası, başkaraktere empati duymamız için o karakterin film boyunca eziyet çektiğni görmemiz. Wuthering Heights, çok özgün bir kitap uyarlaması. Festivalde izlediğim en başarılı filmlerden biri.

What a self indulgent piece of crap. It looks like a art students first venture into film making. If you like no dialogue and constant close up shots of hair go for it.

GOD DAMN. This was stunning, powerful.