For her debut as a director, Australian actress Frances O’Connor has chosen to portray Emily Brontë’s final years in the hopes of inspiring a new generation of young women who may not know the work of the British poet and writer, died at 30.
The film begins as Emily (Emma Mackey) prepares to breathe her last. Her older sister, Charlotte (Alexandra Dowling), overwhelms her with questions trying to figure out how she wrote The Wuthering Heightsconvinced that she is hiding something from him.
Go back. The three Brontë sisters are bursting with vitality, oscillating between complicity and rivalry under the authority of their pastor father, who has taken care of his daughters and his son Branwell (Fionn Whitehead) with an iron fist since the death of his wife. .
Emily is the black sheep of the family; Solitary and dreamy, she fails to continue her studies to become a teacher like Charlotte and prefers to wander the moors, in the company of her troublemaker brother. As the new vicar (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) whom all the women of the village swoon over educates him at home, Emily dares to question the blind faith instilled in her and discovers the power of words, scribbling her first poems .
While the entire cast is flawless in their portrayal of characters, Emma Mackey’s remarkable acting (eiffel, Sex Education) bursts the screen; With her gaze alone, the young actress manages to ignite the smallest scenes with extraordinary intensity. It is also necessary to underline the poignant music of Abel Korzeniowski, which proves to be eloquent enough to be enough to ensure the narration and thus allow the intrigue, already sober in dialogues, to do without words.
Of the two hours and a few of the film, at no time will we have had the impression that the story stretches in length. Quite the contrary. We would have stayed even longer contemplating the poetic landscapes of Yorkshire which stretch as far as the eye can see, and through which we follow a young woman who dared to defy what was expected of her to live her short life. as she intended.
In theaters (in original English version)
Biographical drama
Emily
Frances O’Connor
With Emma Mackey, Fionn Whitehead, Alexandra Dowling and Oliver Jackson-Cohen
2:10 a.m.