While other films belittle female authors with romance, this fictionalized version of writer Emily Brontë’s life, largely avoids the usual sins. | ✍️ ColleenMoz
is the directorial debut of Frances O’Connor, herself a staple of 19th-century dramas like the mature, racially conscious. O’Connor brings us a complicated Emily Brontë, played by an adept Emma Mackey, whose legendary “strangeness” is intriguingly coded as neurodivergence: Emily avoids eye contact and is stymied by others’ social expectations. The romance with a conflicted curate is handled with care.
however, does suffer from several plot contrivances and banalities that mean it would never compete with the unhinged: it doesn’t really attempt to explain the origins of that masterpiece. Even Emily’s lover is baffled by the weird, “ungodly” eroticism of her poetry, and, in one of the few scenes that depict her actually writing, it is the starkly beautiful nature scene outside Emily’s window that provides the real inspiration.
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