It’s a dramatic imagining of the life of Emily Bronte and the seeks to explain what the author used as inspiration for her famous novel Wuthering Heights.
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This is an intriguing story held together well by an exquisitely sober performance by Emma Mackey as Emily herself. The settings, characters and even the weather bring together a gloomy slightly oppressive mood that perfectly matches the gothic tragedy Bronte eventually wrote.
I enjoyed this movie, but it felt a little laboured in its first half, and I couldn’t quite feel much empathy for Emily herself, yet I can’t really tell you why. In terms of technical things, I found some of the camera techniques a little jarring and at times tracking shots that made me a little dizzy.
All over though, it was watchable.
So how did I score it?
Acting 7 /10
Story/Script 7 /10
Cinematography 6 /10
Set/Costumes 7/10
Entertainment 7 /10
That gives Emily an average score of 6.4 / 10
EMILY
Starring: Emma Mackey, Fionn Whitehead, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Alexandra Dowling, Amelia Gething, Adrian Dunbar, Gemma Jones
Directed by: Frances O’Connor
Duration: 130 Minutes
Opens in Australia and New Zealand – 27th October 2022
