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The Guardian - Life & Style • Feb. 6, 2026, 11:30 a.m.
Lust, yearning and sweet misery: is Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” an antidote to today’s lacklustre dating scene?
The new film of this wildest of love stories captures a romantic intensity that contrasts with today’s age of admin-like dating apps and ‘embarrassing boyfriends’ It’s the kind of all-consuming love that will drive you mad, transform you into a vengeful monster and possibly endure beyond the grave. To my tender teenage heart, this seemed deeply romantic when I first encountered Wuthering Heights at school.
I was hardly alone in feeling so struck by Emily Brontë’s classic novel. Emerald Fennell, the film-maker behind a new big-screen reimagining of the book, starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, has taken a selective approach to the source material but hasn’t skimped on its intensity.
“What I wanted to make was something that distilled the feeling that I had when I was 14, when I read it,” she explains in a promotional interview.
I was hardly alone in feeling so struck by Emily Brontë’s classic novel. Emerald Fennell, the film-maker behind a new big-screen reimagining of the book, starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, has taken a selective approach to the source material but hasn’t skimped on its intensity.
“What I wanted to make was something that distilled the feeling that I had when I was 14, when I read it,” she explains in a promotional interview.
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