3.0 out of 5 star rating<\/span> <\/span> <\/div> <\/div> While there have been many screen adaptations of Wuthering Heights, its author Emily<\/span> Bront<\/span>\u00eb<\/span> has somewhat been underserved by cinema. Perhaps it\u2019s because she comes as one of three, with sisters Anne and Charlotte also famed for writing some of the most indelible books in English literature. Or simply that Wuthering Heights is such a landmark novel, it has overpowered its creator, who died aged 30, with just a handful of poems and this one novel to her name.<\/span><\/p>\nActress Frances O\u2019Connor tries to correct that, swinging the spotlight on Emily<\/span> Bront<\/span>\u00eb<\/span> in this, her first film as writer-director. Though set in the early 19th century, it\u2019s not a biographical portrait of Emily<\/span> or the other Bront<\/span>\u00eb<\/span> sisters, although we do join them in Haworth, Yorkshire, near the moors that so inspired Wuthering Heights\u2019 wild romance between the iconic figures of Cathy and Heathcliff. Rather, it\u2019s a film that mixes reality with myth, as O\u2019Connor tries to join the dots between Emily<\/span>\u2019s life and her sole novel.<\/span><\/p> Playing Emily<\/span> is Emma Mackey, famed for her role as the moody Maeve in Sex Education, and here firing brooding looks at all who cross her path. According to the bespectacled Charlotte (Alexandra Dowling), Emily<\/span> is \u201cthe strange one\u201d of the family, and O\u2019Connor paints an intriguing picture of sisters who dislike each other. True to history, Anne \u2013 played by Amelia Gething \u2013 doesn\u2019t get much of a look-in. The rebellious Emily<\/span> gets on better with Branwell (Fionn Whitehead), their brother. A troublemaker who has a problem with alcohol and opium, he is very much the black sheep of the Bront\u00eb<\/span> family.<\/span><\/p>\nRunning the Parish church, her father (Adrian Dunbar) is a stern disciplinarian, but Emily<\/span> is given a shot at love when she meets his new assistant, Mr Weightman (Olivier Jackson-Cohen), who also tutors her in French. After being caught in the rain \u2013 apt, as his first sermon talks about this very form of weather \u2013 the two share a kiss. But Weightman is weighed down by the thought of committing a mortal sin. Emily<\/span>, of course, thinks otherwise, buying into what Branwell says: \u201cThere is only one true happiness in life \u2013 to love and be loved.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n