Wuthering Heights

One of the finest contemporary film adaptations of the Victorian classic returns to Russian cinemas.

2011, Andrea Arnold

United Kingdom
129 minutes, English with Russian subtitles

Starring: Kaya Scodelario, James Howson, Solomon Glave, Shannon Beer

Little Heathcliff is taken in by the Earnshaw family and, as he grows up, becomes close to the homeowner’s daughter. But their love is impossible due to the unequal social backgrounds. The young man is torn between animal passion and the torment he suffers as punishment for his feelings.

Shot from Wuthering Heights, 2011

Arnold (...) has made a film that’s not just faithful to the text but deeply attuned to the savagery of its emotions. I can still smell the sweat.

—Jeannette Catsoulis, NPR.org

In her screen adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic novel, the British director explores the emotional vicissitudes of the Victorian era and reveals it to be filled with passion and longing.