Wuthering Heights

I really enjoyed Andrea Arnolds previous film 'Fish Tank', a gritty urban drama set in London. With Wuthering Heights, she's applied some of the same docu-drama visual and narrative story telling techniques to give (to some degree) a modern spin on the classic text. There are some beautiful moments when the film manages to blend the wild, untamed environment of the Yorkshire Moors with that of the characters that inhabit the landscape - and  there are some definite visual nods to Terrence Malicks 'The Thin Red Line'

But it's the story presented in it's fragmented form, flip-flopping from past to present and the destabilising of narrative expectations I think where the issues arise. Oddly enough, I would preferred to have seen the film as a series of still images or an installation, if it needed a contemporary re-imagining at all.. 

Anyway, off the soap box! This is the only modern spin on Wuthering Heights you'll ever need :)