'Emily' review: A Brontë sister's sex education
Emma Mackey gives a superb performance in Frances O'Connor's speculative romantic drama about the author of "Wuthering Heights."
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Emma Mackey gives a superb performance in Frances O'Connor's speculative romantic drama about the author of "Wuthering Heights."
This largely imagined story of 18th century British author Emily Brontë touches on matters of simmering creativity, sibling rivalry, burning ambition, tragic love, and social rigidity.
Blending fact with generous, liberating fiction, the director Frances O’Connor brings the author of “Wuthering Heights” to pleasurable life.
“Wuthering Heights” was first published in 1847 under the name Ellis Bell — a pseudonym for Emily Brontë, of course, and one that she adopted in tandem with her sisters Charlotte and Anne, in their individual novels as well as a book of poetry. “Jane Eyre” was published under Currer
Actress Frances O’Connor, in her feature writing and directing debut, has tried to translate her fascination with the enigma that was Emily Bronte into a…