Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream that no one respects, goes through hell in pursuit of greatness. A review of Josh Safdie's film, nominated for seven Oscars.
Emerald Fennell focuses her attention on the visceral bond between Heathcliff and Catherine. Her "Wuthering Heights," admittedly enclosed in quotation marks, is a staging of the adolescent gaze in the very act of approaching Brontë's novel: not a canonical adaptation, but an emotional, instinctive rereading, filtered through the urgency and restlessness of the nineteenth-century novel.
