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The latest Frances O'Connor film retraces the coming of age of the mysterious Emily Brontë who wrote the English classic Wuthering Heights and died at the age of 30. We find it hard to imagine how repressed women were not so long ago. This repression was the cause for the many odd personality developments in women of the past. Women were not allowed to be doctors and male doctors did not listen to what their women patients were telling them about their symptoms, always knowing better than females. As we can recognize by the powerful women of our times, women are smart creative and knowledgeable.
So Emily struggled with her innate shyness, her tremendous talent and the repressive times in which she lived. The movie evokes the atmosphere of the times in which the Brontë family lived. Their story is so gloomy. Her mother died before she was eight, two older sisters then died, then her beloved brother, then her, all the children died and left their father alone until he died past eighty years old.
But I digress. The movie does not claim to reproduce the factual life of Emily Brontë. Instead it is a wishful re-imagining from the modern woman's perspective.
Emma Mackey plays Emily well but her entire look and portrayal evoke a modern woman. Oliver Jackson-Cohen plays William Weightman, a pastor who becomes Emily's lover in the movie.
Ultimately, although tragic, the movie does have scenes of believable fun and joy we certainly hope the Brontë family enjoyed.
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