That name on the book cover is our first warning bell. Only two minutes into “Emily,” a bold and audacious retelling of Emily Brontë’s life starring an uncommonly compelling Emma Mackey, we spy ...

There’s a practice known as bibliomancy, where readers will open the Bible to a random page in the hopes that the passage they encounter will provide a needed answer to a dilemma. In Mike Leigh’s ...

“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 ...

Frances O'Connor makes her directorial debut with this ravishing, safely revisionist biopic about the author of "Wuthering Heights." Despite writing one of the most rugged and enduring novels in all ...

Late in her own relatively short life, the writer Charlotte Brontë published a brief “biographical notice” about her two sisters, Emily and Anne, both fellow writers who died tragically young. Of ...

Credits: Directed by Frances O'Connor, starring Emma Mackey, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Fionn Whitehead, Amelia Gething, Alexandra Dowling and Adrian Dunbar. Rating/Runtime: Rated R for some sexuality, ...

The 'Wuthering Heights' author is warmly embraced and gently released by actor-turned-filmmaker O'Connor, in a period drama with a subtly modern sensibility. But that quickly becomes the point, with ...

Blending fact with generous, liberating fiction, the director Frances O’Connor brings the author of “Wuthering Heights” to pleasurable life. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ticket for an ...

Charlotte Brontë once wrote that an interpreter ought to have stood between her sister and the world, and Frances O'Connor's riveting feature debut Emily aims to accomplish just that. Emily Brontë is ...

If you’ve ever wondered what inspired Emily Brontë to write Wuthering Heights, you’re not alone – and Frances O’Connor has made a film about it. The actor turns writer-director with the imaginative ...

Emily (2022) Film Review, a movie written and directed by Frances O’Connor and starring Emma Mackey, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Fionn Whitehead, Alexandra Dowling, Amelia Gething, Adrian Dunbar, Gemma ...

That name on the book cover is our first warning bell. Only two minutes into “Emily,” a bold and audacious retelling of Emily Brontë’s life starring an uncommonly compelling Emma Mackey, we spy ...