The Best of K-Drama & Movies: Kinocine

Emily Brontë’s sole novel, Wuthering Heights (1847), has been adapted for the screen once again. For those who grew up with "Great Illustrated Classics" or the black-and-white Laurence Olivier version, expectations were likely high for a story of yearning, obsession, and a love that transcends death on the desolate, windswept moors. However, Emerald Fennell—the director behind Promising Young Woman, a tale of a woman’s seven-year quest for revenge—has crafted a version that is anything but a bedtime story. The film opens with a public hanging in an 18th-century English town. In this bleak, crude, and eerie setting, death is a form of entertainment for the masses. This grim atmosphere sets the stage for Catherine, the daughter of the Earnshaw family living at the windswept "Wuthering Heights." When her alcoholic father brings home a scruffy waif from the streets, Heathcliff becomes both Catherine’s companion and the target of abuse. They grow into soulmates in the co...