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Summary: Not just a chick-flick!
Review: When I sat down to watch this film, everything from the cover front and back to my from-high-school assumptions about the original novel made me think I was going to suffer through 2 hours of a chick-flick. After 10 minutes I was glued to the screen. Great scenery, costumes, and acting. I agree Binoche's performance wasn't as strong as Fiennes', but it was not distracting. After the film ended I sat silent and stunned- I could have easily watched another hour. This is also one of Ryuichi Sakamoto's best soundtracks . The only two complaints I have are that the LD transfer was not letterbox... the scenery was beautiful and I'm sure the pan-&-scan cropped a lot off... and that I can't find anywhere to buy the brilliant soundtrack.
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Summary: If you are romantic in heart watch this movie
Review: First time i was this movie is about ralph fiennes. i started crying becuase give the viewer the feeling of being in love with your soulmate and love until death. Also give the feeling about how a man like heathcliff could be everything else but love is more stornger that everythin else. i give it 5 star because i believe that.
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Summary: A dark, obsessive love story that will haunt you.
Review: I saw this version of Wuthering Heights on t.v. a few years ago, before I had heard of the book or Ralph Fiennes or Juliette Binoche, and I was riveted to the screen. When a commercial would come on, I would have to shake myself back to reality and remind myself it was only a story. I highly recommend it to anyone who has ever loved someone.
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Summary: It is so intense and beautifully done.
Review: I caught this movie on TNT a couple years ago and ABSOLUTELY loved it. I watched it last night again on video. It still holds the wonder and aww for me. I read the book last week, finally, and I was surprised how well it did follow the story. 'Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights' is one of the greatest films I've ever seen. And I shall never forget it.
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Summary: the best film of my life... If love exists, is like this!
Review: The best soundtrack, the most beautiful history, the best places, ie
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Summary: I liked it a lot
Review: I saw the movie before I read the book and I enjoyed the movie a whole lot better. The movie left me a bit overwhelmed, like imagine being hit by a blast of wind. Ralph Fiennes was wonderful as usual and the sweeping music was a wonderful addition to the movie.
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Summary: Problematic but better than most versions
Review: Juliette Binoche was, I'm afraid, miscast in this version of WH. Her French accent is ill-concealed and she has not the ability nor the perception to make Cathy (Sr) and Catherine (Jr) separate, distinct characters with different motivations.Binoche's flighty, giggling, shallow rendition of Cathy is both inappropriate to the novel's profound themes and unfaithful to Bronte's characterization. If anything, Bronte's Cathy is attracted to Heathcliff because his dark nature mirrors and complements her own innate wildness.Binoche displays not one ounce of wildness or complexity...Fiennes, on the other hand, is brilliantly cast. His savage Heathcliff is Gothic and wild, yet displays the character's intense vulnerability. I am the fiercest critic of film adaptations of literature, so I was surprised at the very true-to-the-novel screenplay (with the minor but glaring faux pas of having Bronte narrate the story). Students of British Lit will not be dissapointed. The major problem of the movie is its length.How can the world accept a fluffy 3-hour "Titanic" but content itself with a brief hour and a half treatment of one of the greatest classic novels of the English language?While the movie IS faithful and literary,it would be better still with an extra hour in which to spread out all of the novel's delicious details.However,oh Bronte student and critic, be assured that at least the most essential scenes of the novel, the most important details and dialogue, HAVE been included in this version.Finally, an added bonus is the cinematography,direction,on-location shots,score, and FX: they impressively re-create the wild Gothic ambience of the moors that so characterizes Bronte's masterpiece. A note about the score: the composer,of "The Last Emperor" fame, has created a wild, haunting theme performed in turn on authentically rustic woodwinds and sweeping synths/violins that plays up the Gothic-wild aspect in purely, gloriously campy fashion. The quasi-Celtic pipes remind us of Bronte's fascination with the innate wildness and evil of mankind, and of the North country's proximity to Scotland. Overall, well done film with a strong performance by Fiennes,an A- for literary faithfulness, an A for music and screenplay, and an A for cinematography and setting.Too exaggeratedly romantic and campily brooding for the average viewer. Worth renting if you are a tolerant,open-minded layperson, but definitely NOT worth purchasing unless you are a student of British Lit or the Bronte sisters.If you are said student, this version is a must-own.
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Summary: Simply Brilliant!
Review: This film is MUCH BETTER than William Wyler's awful adaptation. It's the whole story, and remains faithful to the spirit of the book. The acting is excellent, the music is incredible, and the costumes are wonderful--notice how the styles change over 18 years. This is a wonderful movie! I can't say that enough.
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Summary: Not so good, but the only "complete" version available
Review: Well, this movie has 2 things going on it. The scenes and moors are authentic, as it was shot in the same location where the Brontes lived. And, it's the only one that faithfully follows the ENTIRE plot.But, otherwise, this movie is just not very good. Juliette Binoche is simply miscast as Catherine; as the 2nd generation one, she simply looks too old. Ralph Feinnes, however, was a MAJOR disappointment. I've always seen the brooding actor as a perfect choice for Heathcliff, and he definitely conveys Heathcliff's agony and vengeful, dark nature. However, though it is admirable that he depicts Heathcliff's villainy without any romantic cushion, his depiction is nevertheless one-dimensional. Fienne's Heathcliff is either tortured or brutal. There's little humanity in here to suggest why he would have such a love for Catherine. Honestly, he seems more cartoon than a real man. Without an equally passionate performance by Binoche to balance his, their love seem merely perverse and almost funny in its melodrama. Ironically, the pairing of the two works wonderfully in the English Patient, when she is emotional but pleasant and he tortured but with humor. Being a major fan of the book and a fan of Fiennes, I felt the movie was a truly wasted opportunity.
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Summary: Fiennes is good, but overall film lacks the book's passion.
Review: Though I enjoyed this film alright, I have a hard time imagining anyone who hasn't read the book being able to apreciate the story or characters very well. It tries to be a "complete" screen telling of the story, but it's really just the highlights. Ralph Fiennes is the only real saving grace. Heathcliff, the original gothic romantic anti-hero, forrunner to such characters as the Phantom of the Opera and the Vampire Lestat, seems like the role he was born to play.
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