"Emily" imagines the transformative, exhilarating, and uplifting journey to womanhood of a rebel and a misfit, one of the world's most famous, enigmatic, and provocative writers, w...
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★★★★★
Emma Mackey is really quite strong in this imagining of the life (and love) of "Wuthering Heights" author Emily Brontë. Portrayed as a rather shy and reluctant woman, she lives in the shadow of her successful teacher sister Charlotte (Alexandra Dowling) with h...
★★★★★
What a wicked, wicked film this is and the depths to which non-academics misunderstand Wuthering Heights reeks throughout this lush and engaging period drama.
Emily Bronte never had an affair, she never married, and she is quoted in an earlier biopic from 197...
★★★★★
Emma Mackey gives a strong performance as the central character in this drama; she is charismatic and beguiling, an emotional display (though at times this does stray into the histrionic). Whilst the director's intention is to provide a portrayal of the charac...
★★★★★
First. The things I liked: the music the costumes the fact that it was filmed in Haworth and roundabouts it's beautifully shot.
However, it veered so far away from anything known about about Emily's character or known facts about the Brontes as to be hilariou...
★★★★★
EMILY surprised me. I was expecting a run-of-the-mill period biopic, but it quickly took a turn for toward the extraordinary. Little is known of Emile Brontë. So, Frances O'Connor has embraced the freedom of the absence of historical information to make a rive...
