Synopsis
Yorkshire moorlands, northern England, in the late 18th century. Young Heathcliff, rescued from the streets of Liverpool by Mr. Earnshaw, the owner of Wuthering Heights, an isolated farm, develops over the years an insane passion for Cathy, his foster sister, a sick obsession destined to end tragically.
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Cast
- Kaya ScodelarioOlder Cathy
- James HowsonOlder Heathcliff
- Solomon GlaveYoung Heathcliff
- Shannon BeerYoung Cathy
- Steve EvetsJoseph
- Oliver MilburnMr. Linton
- Paul HiltonMr. Earnshaw
- Simone JacksonNelly
- Lee ShawHindley
- James NorthcoteEdgar Linton
Recommendations
- 100
The Playlist
Wuthering Heights is a model of how to bring a classic novel kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century. - 91
The A.V. Club
It's an intense, uncompromising take that restores some of the shock that made Wuthering Heights so notable when it first appeared. - 83
Entertainment Weekly
Willful, meandering, and intriguing, this Wuthering Heights is similarly headstrong. - 80
Boxoffice 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." - 80
The Guardian
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. - 80
Time
Faithful and bold adaptation. - 80
Time Out
Arnold's vibrant, Malickian adaptation has another bold stroke worth mentioning: Heathcliff, a Gypsy in the original text, is now an Afro-Caribbean former slave, initially a bruised teen (Glave) and then an unusual, self-made man (Howson). - 75
Slant Magazine
In whittling down Emily Brontë's romance to its most earthly aspects, Andrea Arnold stylizes herself into an unavoidable corner.
