Fennell | 2026 | USA, UK

Pretty [boring].

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That said, a flavour of take I continue to see about Wuthering Heights concerns the “accuracy” or “respect” of the adaptation. One formed and shared in particularly bad faith called it “anti-intellectual” and “dangerous”.

Movies are movies and books are books. Even when a book is adapted “faithfully” and both book and film are excellent (The Martian and 25th Hour spring to mind), they are still separate quantities and there’s nothing in the link.

Next month I’ll get to see an adaptation of my favourite writer’s (Camus) most popular novel (The Stranger). I won’t be able to unread the novel and that knowledge of the story will be on my mind as I watch the film – but it’s not knowledge I’ll hold against the film. Otherwise, what would be the point of even watching the film?