Wuthering Heights (2011)

Directed by Andrea Arnold

Academy-Award winning director Andrea Arnold brings to Emily Brontë’s 19th-century classic the same ferocious raw vision that marks her contemporary dramas Red Road and Fish Tank. The doomed passion that binds Catherine and Heathcliff, reimagined here as a freed African slave, seems to saturate the very earth amidst the film’s wild, brooding beauty. In underscoring race as one of the unfathomable forces that shape the lovers’ desire, Arnold breaks from tradition even as her interpretation takes its place alongside the best screen adaptations.

Based on the novel by Emily Brontë. Screenwriter: A. Arnold, Olivia Hetreed. Cinematographer: Robbie Ryan. Editor: Nicolas Chaudeurge. Cast: James Howson, Kaya Scodelario, Solomon Glave, Paul Hilton, Shannon Beer.

35mm, color, 129 min.

*Wuthering Heights opens in Los Angeles on Friday, October 12 at the Nuart.

Watch the trailer below.