Review | Wuthering Heights movie review: Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi sizzle in modern moorcore
Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights captivates with stunning visuals in the Yorkshire Moors and sizzling chemistry between Elordi and Robbie
4/5 stars
Released in time for Valentine’s Day, Emerald Fennell’s third film is being launched among a blitzkrieg of hype, focusing on Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie, its highly photogenic stars.
Usually, that is enough to make you wary. But Fennell’s take on Emily Bronte’s 1847 novel Wuthering Heights has the substance to back it up. Beautifully costumed, designed, shot and performed, the film is an impeccably made tale of doomed lovers, one that will bring a tear to the eye.
Certainly, it is not as risqué as the trailer might have you believe; the bodily fluids present in Saltburn are all but absent. Instead, Fennell relies on her leads to spice up this story, as the brutish Heathcliff (Elordi) and the mercurial Cathy (Robbie) exhibit scorching chemistry, until she marries for money.