The book feels like a writer working within his limits and not breaking any new ground, believes KEN COCKBURN
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Film round-up: October 13, 2022
Maria Duarte reviews of Emily, Rosaline, All Is Vanity, and Halloween Ends
Emma Mackay as Emily Bronte in Frances O'Connor's Emily
PRAGYA AGARWAL recommends a collection of drawings that explore the relation of indigenous people to the land in south Asia, Africa and the Caribbean
CHRIS SEALE speaks to Palestinian sound artist BINT MBAREH
MARY CONWAY applauds a brave and timely two hander that explores the difference between intimacy and abuse
ANDY HEDGECOCK and MARIA DUARTE review The Thing with Feathers, Train Dreams, Sisu: Road to Revenge, and Wicked: For Good
GUILLERMO THOMAS welcomes a biography of WA Domingo, a key figure in the anti-colonial struggle in the Caribbean
Emily (15)
Directed by Frances O'Connor
★★★
ACTOR turned director Frances O’Connor's debut feature is a haunting and visually arresting reimagining of the life of Emily Bronte, whose one and only novel Wuthering Heights is considered a literary classic.
Emma Mackay (Death on the Nile and Sex Education) is absolutely mesmerising as Emily who is full of contradictions — shy yet rebellious; quietly opinionated yet demure — who expressed her passions and yearnings through her poems and writings.
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