Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights is a 2011 British romantic drama film directed by Andrea Arnold and starring Kaya Scodelario and James Howson as Catherine and Heathcliff, respectively. The screenplay, written by Andrea Arnold and Olivia Hetreed is based on Emily Brontë's 1847 novel of the same name. Based on Emily Brontë’s only novel, Wuthering Heights is a dark tale of passionate and thwarted love, sibling rivalry and revenge wreaked. A Yorkshire hill farmer on a visit to Liverpool finds a homeless boy, named Heathcliff, on the streets. He takes him home to live as part of his family on the isolated Yorkshire moors where the boy forges an obsessive relationship with the farmer’s daughter, Catherine. As the children grow, family members and neighbours are caught up in the family’s bitter games fuelled by overblown egos. Though ostensibly a costume drama, the story lends itself to contemporary themes such as racism and dependency, whilst touching on perennial ones such as jealousy, hatred of the other, love and the family. Set in the wild Yorkshire countryside, the landscape is at once the ideal backdrop and one of the major protagonists of this cruel and passionate story.