Adaptation of the Emily Brontë classic by filmmaker Andrea Arnold (Fish Tank), a dark tale of passionate and thwarted love,...
Adaptation of the Emily Brontë classic by filmmaker Andrea Arnold (Fish Tank), a dark tale of passionate and thwarted love, sibling rivalry and revenge wreaked.
"A Yorkshire hill farmer on a visit to Liverpool finds a homeless boy, named Heathcliff, on the streets. He takes him home to live as part of his family on the isolated moors where the boy forges an obsessive relationship with the farmer’s daughter, Catherine. As the children grow, family members and neighbours are caught up in the family’s bitter games fuelled by overblown egos." (Venice Film Festival 2011)
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Where to watch Wuthering Heights (2011)
68 %114 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
47 %8,775 reviewsAudience score rating
"More interesting in theory than it is to watch."
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Variety
Variety"Embraces the novel’s rough-hewn core and emotional cataclysms head on."
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Total Film
Total Film"Faithful and bold adaptation."
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Time Magazine
Time Magazine"An admirable, frustrating attempt to strip away the novel's inherited "classic" status and restore its raw and earthy passion."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"Perhaps above everything else, Arnold returns us to the most potent fact about the Cathy and Heathcliff love affair: it is a love affair between equals, not between a woman with coquettish "erotic capital" and a man with property and status."
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The Guardian
The Guardian"Successful in reimagining the story's archetypal emotions in the story, bringing it closer to its passionate elements."
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Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert"The book shouldn't be required reading for the film to make sense."
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times"An audaciously and satisfyingly stark, direct and radical approach to an oft-filmed literary classic."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter"Captures the setting of the book, and its darkness, wonderfully, but goes too far towards edgy in its quest to avoid the usual literary clichés."
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Empire Magazine
Empire Magazine"Arnold's newest testament to passion and squalor strikes a tone somewhere between Cary Fukinaga's emo "Jane Eyre" and Sophia Coppola's revisionist-hip "Marie Antoinette.""
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Box Office Magazine
Box Office Magazine"It's an intense, uncompromising take that restores some of the shock that made Wuthering Heights so notable when it first appeared."
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A.V. Club
A.V. ClubWuthering Heights (2011) | Details
Award winner- Winner of the Golden Osella (for cinematography), Venice Film Festival 2011.
- Runtime
- 128
- Genre
- Drama, Romance
- Country of origin
- UK
