"Wuthering Heights"

A lot of people seem to know a lot more about actor/director Emerald Fennell than I do. As I understand it, there’s a point-of-view for her that’s part of her brand – an elevated kinky, studied sauciness. Caricatures of characters in historical novels are deployed as a delivery system into the pleasure center of the psyche as a means to sell popcorn to corset-flick cinephiles. As a Fennell novice, this reminded me of that old episode of Gilligan’s Island where Gilligan was Doctor Jekyll and Mary Anne was Eliza Doolittle. Or maybe a Simpsons episode where they’re goofing on a romance novel. It’s pretty, but less-than subtle. Fingers stand-in for lots of sexy things (if you catch my drift) and the wind machines could probably get top billing. The take-away is the experience itself, I guess. A five on the tissue-meter. Apparently, also, it’s based on a famous, old novel? It’s hard to tell.