Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of the novel Wuthering Heights was released recently in theatres. Titled Wuthering Heights, the period romantic drama film stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in the lead.
While the film avoids full-frontal nudity, it replaces it with what critics are calling "sensory erotica" and highly stylized, kinky power plays. "Fennell leans heavily into the master/servant subtext of the novel, literalizing it through several fetish-inspired choices. Intensely sensual, but fully clothed, montages of the pair in rain-soaked carriages are sultry," a critic stated.
BDSM, voyeurism, and suggestive shots that glamourize primal desire feature in the film.
Wuthering Heights has received a mixed critical response. It has been described as an "emotionally hollow, bodice-ripping misfire".
For many, even the classic novel didn't work. "I remember the first time I read Wuthering Heights all of the characters were just terrible, horrible people. I had no one to root for. Not even a facet of humanity was shown in a character as Dostoevsky shows in his worst villains. It was not a love story. It was a vanity story," Megha wrote recently.
