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Wuthering Heights has torn the Independent’s culture desk apart

OFFICE POLITICS: Are you currently distrusting your friends and loved ones due to their feelings about Emerald Fennell’s garish bodice-ripper? Then you are not alone! Here at ‘The Independent’, ‘Wuthering Heights’ has left us more divided than ever. So, in the interest of healing, we asked eight of our writers…

The Independent UK

Wuthering Heights is at its heart a story of class and race. Emerald Fennell has got it all wrong

By turning the novel into just a corset-heaving love story, the director has stripped it of what made it so boundary-pushing, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

The Guardian - UK

Wuthering Heights Earned Back Its $113M Budget In 48 Hours & That’s On Horniness

Critics, be damned, I guess!

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When is 'Wuthering Heights' coming to streaming? Here's our best guess

Waiting to stream "Wuthering Heights" with Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi? Here's when we think Emerald Fennell's adaptation will come to PVOD and HBO Max.

Tom’s Guide

UK audiences swoon over Wuthering Heights as film takes £7.7m over Valentine’s weekend

Emerald Fennell’s Brontë adaptation has overperformed on home turf, with a £10,030 site average over its opening weekend

The Guardian - UK

‘It was spooky’: folk singer Olivia Chaney on how a song reflecting her own Brontë-ish love triangle wound up in Wuthering Heights

Offsetting Charli xcx, Chaney’s take on 19th-century ballad Dark Eyed Sailor accompanies Margot Robbie on the moors – but it’s just a tiny part of her culture-crossing, history-vaulting musical catalogue

The Guardian - UK

Every generation gets the Wuthering Heights it deserves. And Emerald Fennell’s is for the always-online

Packed cinemas testify to the allure of Emily Brontë’s tale, even if this latest retelling is not to everyone’s taste, says Guardian arts and culture correspondent Nadia Khomami

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Ignore the Wuthering Heights haters – Emerald Fennell is good, actually

COMMENT: The British filmmaker’s new movie ‘Wuthering Heights’ has largely received a critical drubbing. But the style may be the point, writes Adam White, who’s come to love her propensity for posh sex, pop-video silliness, and the marvellously asinine

The Independent UK

Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights is big movie with a very small mind

The maximalist adaptation of the gothic romance shows great interest in production design but very little in character

The Guardian - US

Unpacking Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights: the best podcasts of the week

As Emerald Fennell’s new adaptation hits the screens, the historian Dominic Sandbrook takes a deep-dive into the novel’s dark themes. Plus, how to battle phone addiction

The Guardian - UK

‘Consider Yourself Warned.’ Anne Hathaway’s Response To Seeing Wuthering Heights Is Going Viral

Anne Hathaway has entered the chat.

Cinemablend

Powered by women, ‘Wuthering Heights’ digs up $34.8 million at the box office for a No. 1 debut

Emerald Fennell’s new “Wuthering Heights” has opened in first place at the North American box office

The Independent UK

Emerald Fennell reflects on why 'demented' Zatanaa film didn't happen

Emerald Fennell has admitted her "demented" Zatanaa movie was "too dark" and "too far away from the genre" to get made.

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Wuthering Heights Ending: Margot Robbie Reveals What She Thinks Cathy's Last Words To Heathcliff Would've Been

Margot Robbie and Emerald Fennell weigh in on the movie's ending.

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Wuthering Heights Review: A Thick Fog Of Hot, Filthy Melodrama Smogs Up Margot Robbie’s Latest Film

Emerald Fennell’s latest is artful but flawed.

Total Film

Scrapped Zatanna DC movie was "maybe a little too far away from the genre," director admits: "I always felt like I hadn't quite maybe delivered the thing that they wanted"

Wuthering Heights' Emerald Fennell assures, "Oh, nobody would’ve made that."

The Guardian - UK

From Wuthering Heights to Mario Tennis Fever: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

Emerald Fennell’s film brings the raunch to Brontë’s romance, while Nintendo’s beloved plumber stars in a colourful, family-friendly sports game

The Independent UK

Wuthering Heights director defends significant changes made in adaptation of beloved classic

Emerald Fennell’s period drama stars Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie as Heathcliff and Catherine

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Evening Standard

Charli XCX’s Wuthering Heights soundtrack receives positive reviews

The soundtrack was released on Friday.

The Conversation

Don’t fall in love this Valentine’s Day – read Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights is back in the news and racing up the bestseller lists, thanks to a new film version by the provocative director Emerald Fennell, starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi. The film is marketing Wuthering Heights as “the world’s greatest love story”.

The Guardian - UK

‘I loved it!’: Brontë museum staff praise racy Wuthering Heights film

Staff at Brontë Parsonage Museum in Howarth embrace Emerald Fennell’s sex-laced take, while Emily Brontë’s most recent biographer calls BDSM version ‘a lot of fun’

Reason

Wuthering Heights Is a Kinky, Revisionist Fever Dream

A problematic hyperpop romance that collides with the manosphere

The Independent UK

Music Review: A post-'Brat' Charli xcx broods on the 'Wuthering Heights' soundtrack

Charli xcx's first release post-"Brat” summer is a brooding soundtrack for Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of “Wuthering Heights,” and it aims to stand on its own

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Wuthering Heights actress Margot Robbie reveals the celebrity crush she would've 'risked it all' for

Margot Robbie has told how she would've "risked it all" for Lord of Rings character Aragon as a 16-year-old, and admitted she must have "a type" after likening his look to her Wuthering Heights character Cathy's lover Heathcliff.

The Conversation

Is this love? Don’t be Heathcliff and Cathy – what you should watch, read and play this week

Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights is a loose (very loose) adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel. The film is, as the director has attested, the intense, “unhinged”, gothic story she remembers reading as a 14-year-old. As such, it is full of imagined passages and heightened romance and violence. It’s truly Fennellian in…

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