Wuthering Heights

It's the pure power of cinema that can make the Bronte sisters work actually good.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

Unreal.

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.

Like the bizarro version of a Jane Austen film: harsh, dirty, and absolutely unromantic.

Viewed May 17, 2020.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Boa adaptação

I like the location but the lead acting is terrible.

Excellent adaption.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

stunning (yet very cliche) photography and nothing else... boring, dull and predictable storytelling..last act is very rushed...

GOD DAMN. This was stunning, powerful.

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.