Wuthering Heights
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Movie Reviews of Wuthering Heights
Movie Review: "I Cannot Live Without My Soul." The Immortal Love Story Is Here For The First Time In ALL Its Glory.
Summary: 5 Stars
For the first time ever, Emily Bronte's classic story of love and revenge gets the royal, full-length treatment. Ralph Fiennes & Juliette Binoche, then unknown, play the doomed lovers Heathcliff and Cathy. Very well made movie. The performances are much better than in the crappy 1970 movie version of this story, which was destroyed by a riduculous screenplay (not to mention also the utterly nonsensical ending). The chemistry between Fiennes and Binoche is very apparent, and sparks fly between them. As I haven't read the novel in several years (and given that this one tells the COMPLETE story), I got lost during the 2nd half of the film, but continued watching with absolute fascination...only towards the end did I begin to grasp the rest of the story. After seeing Fiennes in this movie, Steven Spielberg wanted Fiennes for the role of the villainous Amon Goeth in "Schindler's List"... and the rest is history. To see Fiennes go from playing a tormented hero to an evil man with no shred of human kindness is extraordinary. Binoche is doubly excellent in the movie. Sophie Ward, who plays Isabella Linton, also appeared as the ill-fated Elizabeth in "Young Sherlock Holmes." Best to watch the 1939 film version with Merle Oberon & Laurence Olivier first. Also a very good version. I highly recommend this movie. Rated PG.Movie Review: I've Seen Them All Now, This is My FAVORITE!
Summary: 5 Stars
I've seen every "Heights" that has been filmed so far and this one remeins my favorite. I read the book aabout 30 times when I was in college. (I still remember a dorm-mate asking me if I was reading it for a class and exclaiming when I said no, "You're reading for FUN?")
I love most versions I've seen for one reason or another. But the 1939 story was too melodramatic and over acted. (Lightning strikes behind Merle Oberon when she declares "I AM Heathcliff!"with her eys bugged out. And they are way too virtuous! These are PASSIONATE people! Passion is not always pretty.
Timothy Dalton was great as Heathcliff but his leading lady was homely and the entire story wasn't told.
The most recent Masterpiece Theatre production was good, but the actors were a little long in the tooth to be the Cathy and Heathcliff of my imagination and Nelly was not given the role written for her, in my opinion.
The foreign language versions just aren't "ENGLISH" enough! This is the story of Celts and Angles!
Anyhow this is the onw that catches the characters for me!
This is the ine that makes me cry and the actors say the lines closest to the way I imagined they shoud be said when I read them during my romantic college days!
I love it!
Movie Review: Wuthering Heights
Summary: 5 Stars
Wuthering Heights (1992)
This is the first film production that entails both generations of the Earnshaws and Lintons. As a Graduate student of English, I am very familiar with the text and I find this version is adequate and fascinating. Ralph Fiennes utilizes his ever-charismatic talent for drama to pull-off the complex and dark Heathcliff character. Binoche gives and exceptional "I am Heathcliff" speech. I was able to follow the text along with the movie's scenes. There are some variations, and I am biased since I stand forthright in my allegiance to text rather than film. One of the main aspects of Heathcliff's character in the text is his envy for the blue eyes of Linton and Fiennes' blue eyes are a bit distracting in the movie. The film industry has yet to really apply the physical description of Heathcliff to film version. But, this version is perfectly tuned into the Gothic and dreary features of the text.
Movie Review: The Best Twice Over
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a stellar version of a beautiful book, my very favorite in fact. Like most people, I am most often very disapointed when novels I love are adapted to the screen This film is one of the rare exceptions. Faithful to the book, Beautifully shot, expertly casted. Ralf Fiennes is the perfect Heathcliff,brooding, morose,obssesive, magnetic, jelous on an almost demented level. Juliet Binoche is Kathy flawlessly, wild and determined, together their chemistry is explosive.
Jason Riddington's performance as Hareton Earnshaw is heart breaking. this alone makes the movie worth watching. My only complaint and it's a small one, is that Juliet Binoche plays both Kathy Earshaw and Katherine Linton. It's slightly disconcerting, not to say she doesn't play it well. It's just a little hard to buy. However, it doesn't really hurt the story. This is all and all a fabulous treat of a film, whether you love romance, historical, or dramatic films it's perfct.
Movie Review: Best adaptation yet
Summary: 5 Stars
I have the movie on VHS and now I found the DVD version. I have never seen the 1939 version with Merle Oberon, but I read and re-read the novel several times and this is defintley not a star-crossed love story like Romeo and Juliet.
Cathy and Heathcliffe are not pleasant people, their love for each other turns to spite and inconsideration for everyone else in their world.
The novel is VERY dark but graphically real in the sense that Bronte captured the nuance of human emotions...emotions are suprising things, and each charater plays out their good and bad sides.
After viewing this movie, I was very pleased that finally someone did capture the spirit of the novel, it shows how Healthcliffe grows from being someone you sympathise with to a total complete tyrant...rather than forgiving, he holds on to the grudge of his past to torment the children of his beloved cathy and her brother Hindley.