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Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights

2011
Romance, Drama
2h 9m
No starched lace, no panoramic views, no sweeping score -- Andrea Arnold takes Emily Brontë's classic novel and strips it to the root of youthful passion, restoring its stark power for a contemporary audience. Following her bracing portraits of female desire in Red Road and Fish Tank, Arnold pushes even further here, portraying love as a rush of heart-stopping beauty, cruelty and impulsive acts. (tiff.net)
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Wuthering Heights

2011
Romance, Drama
2h 9m
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Rated 07 Jan 2017
5
81st
It's the pure power of cinema that can make the Bronte sisters work actually good.
Rated 06 Oct 2012
85
68th
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.
Rated 11 Dec 2011
85
95th
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.
Rated 05 Apr 2012
70
38th
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.
Rated 21 May 2012
7
57th
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 couple's tumultuous romance, using little dialogue and jolting shots of a stunningly desolate moorland. Yet a decidedly weak Howson and a conventional 2nd act don't establish their ill-fated romance as a deep and complex love. I should watch Wyler's version
Rated 11 Jul 2012
70
65th
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?
Rated 18 Dec 2012
76
88th
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.
Rated 23 Mar 2014
77
77th
If this had ended with the Kate Bush song instead of goddamn Mumford and Sons i think i would have loved it a lot more... in all seriousness though i wish i could have seen this five or six years ago because the style reflects everything i loved back then, and it really is aesthetically great in that Denis/Grandrieux type way, but it's really at odds with what i'm into these days. Also it's really humorless and stupidly "romantic" in a very adolescent way i.e. Heathcliff is kind of just a prick.
Rated 22 Mar 2012
100
99th
Unreal.
Rated 28 Nov 2016
8
42nd
An incredible visceral achievement. Here, little inserts of insects and nature add so much to the movie because this story is as much about the place and time as the characters. The second half feels more conventional than the first, which takes us back in time to a unique, rural perspective of the world. The best aspect of the movie is its wordlessness - thoughts expressed with looks, emotions with actions. A great next step after Fish Tank.
Rated 13 Mar 2018
65
65th
An extremely stripped-down, shortened, and somewhat altered version of the novel, in which Heathcliff is a vulnerable and unsophisticated African kid, and much of the plot is left out including key characters. Arnold succeeds insofar as she's interested in constructing a minimalist, more sensual and less sentimental take on romanticism. The caveat is in the lack of detail, with some happenings remaining unexplained and many characters poorly fleshed-out.
Rated 10 Apr 2016
75
42nd
I do admire what Arnold is trying to do here: to tell a story with cinematography instead of dialogue. However, it's not for me. I just find it boring. I am bothered by the lack of explanation for key plot/scene changes, and although we get the emotion quite rawly, we do not get any explanation.
Rated 11 Jan 2017
89
90th
This movie is everything the novel isn't and therefore makes it enjoyable
Rated 20 Apr 2012
90
88th
GOD DAMN. This was stunning, powerful.
Rated 22 Jul 2012
0
0th
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.
Rated 13 Feb 2013
81
80th
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.
Rated 07 Jul 2013
30
21st
Heathcliff is an angry boy. He spends most of the film stumbling across marshland, growling at various inanimate objects, sobbing helplessly and at one point apparently having sex with a corpse? (Although my wife who loves the book assures me this is not the case!) It really is tiresome; this whole movie is tiresome. Howson is a terrible actor, and Arnold's attempt at bringing a stark bluntness to this tale is just as big a failure. Too much shakey cam too. Plenty of vision, no execution.
Rated 12 Aug 2012
60
18th
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...
Rated 19 Apr 2014
40
11th
I like the location but the lead acting is terrible.
Rated 03 Mar 2015
80
81st
Boa adaptação
Rated 10 Jul 2015
87
83rd
Hardly anybody seems to have asked to actually act and I can see how this can be alienating to many viewers who have complained the film is boring or lacking any emotional connection. These are kids though. I wouldn't say that they don't know anything about love, but there's not really anything spiritual underpinning it. Love is just a neurotransmitter powering our biological drive to pass along our genetic material. Rather than slow, I'd probably describe the film as deterministic.
Rated 28 Jul 2013
60
62nd
Excellent adaption.
Rated 04 Jan 2013
6
44th
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.
Rated 20 Apr 2012
57
15th
stunning (yet very cliche) photography and nothing else... boring, dull and predictable storytelling..last act is very rushed...
Rated 24 May 2012
90
88th
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.
Rated 06 Feb 2012
45
19th
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.
Rated 05 May 2020
70
56th
The most beautiful Dogme-style adaptation of a Bronte sisters novel ever. But it's still a Dogme-style adaptation of a Bronte sisters novel.
Rated 07 Jan 2018
80
68th
Loved the texture, the feel, the implied emotions. I haven't read the book, so I wasn't concerned with how faithful it is. Though it's funny, I kept waiting for Scodelario to show up, and then when she did I wanted the other girl back. Spending so much time with the amateur kids was perhaps a mistake, as the replacement actors can't match the raw, unpolished charisma that I ended up warming to over the first hour. The transition feels overdue, but ends up being surprisingly rough.
Rated 27 Oct 2012
75
75th
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.
Rated 23 May 2012
80
81st
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.
Rated 28 Apr 2018
70
43rd
Andrea Arnold makes a very realistic and grim adaptations of Brönte's novel. But sacrifices characterizations in the process, making this movie hard to emotional connect with.
Rated 11 May 2019
47
42nd
Sure, the cinematography is beautiful, but the story is completely lacking here. I don't care about any of the characters, since there's barely character development. After every 2 minute scene, there's a pretentious shot of scenery and nature, disrupting the pace drastically. It just didn't work.
Rated 18 May 2020
80
37th
Viewed May 17, 2020.
Rated 29 Mar 2021
79
68th
Like the bizarro version of a Jane Austen film: harsh, dirty, and absolutely unromantic.

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