Life has been lifeing lately on this blog! While I still find time for the occasional new book and book review, my life has largely been taken over by soccer and mom life things these last couple of years so posts about book reviews etc have been scarce. That doesn’t mean I have abandoned my blog or reading by any means…..it just means pressing pause for now on some things and focusing on this new soccer mom season of life.
But that said, you know I couldn’t pass on the opportunity to do a quick review on the new Wuthering Heights film! If you have been around a while then you will know just how much I love this classic. I used to re-read it every single Thanksgiving break and while it’s been a while since I have done that, I am still a HUGE fan of anything Wuthering Heights and when I saw this new film was coming out…..I couldn’t WAIT to watch it.
I watched a few interview with the director, Emerald Fennell, and knew that it would be a loosely based remake. I assumed there would be a lot of creative license and differences from the book although I wasn’t expecting so many changes. I am not familiar with any of Fennell’s previous films so I went in not knowing what to expect but I did assume that it would be more of an ‘artsey’ film just based on some of the trailers etc. But I wasn’t ready for just how different this film would be.
From here on out there might be spoilers so please consider this your warning.
Let’s start from the beginning.
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