MAYER WAKEFIELD is entertained but let down by an audacious production that, sadly, doesn't ring true
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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
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by drama that, despite accomplished performances, cannot overcome an unfocused script
New releases from Sam Carter, Spell Songs and Les Thomas
KEN COCKBURN traces the one original language – that of the Yamnaya pastoral nomads – from which all European and Indian languages derive
PAUL DONOVAN is fascinated by the debunking of the iconic British war hero
ALEX HALL recommends a searing panorama of our global predicament
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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