(Tempo Productions / Bleecker Street Films) The fan-fictionalization of the biographical film genre has been something to witness the past few years. Back in the day, if you rewrote too much of the famous person’s life in your biopic, you got dinged for it by both fans and reviewers; with the filmmakers then having to awkwardly claim they needed to take all that artistic license for ‘narrative reasons.’ We got this with dramas like Oliver Stone’s
I’m really on the fence about seeing this. I love the Brontes and have recently been reading a lot about them. It sounds like this movie is full of inaccuracies which will bother me. With Emily, it comes down to people romanticizing her because she wrote Wuthering Heights which is considered a great love story. It is kind of but there are very few good characters, good in heart and intentions, in that book. I love it, don’t get me wrong!
Anyway, I could go on but this family holds such a special place in my heart that I might pass on the film. Thank you for reviewing it!
I’m really on the fence about seeing this. I love the Brontes and have recently been reading a lot about them. It sounds like this movie is full of inaccuracies which will bother me. With Emily, it comes down to people romanticizing her because she wrote Wuthering Heights which is considered a great love story. It is kind of but there are very few good characters, good in heart and intentions, in that book. I love it, don’t get me wrong!
Anyway, I could go on but this family holds such a special place in my heart that I might pass on the film. Thank you for reviewing it!