We would love you to join us for this once a month opportunity for adult members of the community to come together for fun, camaraderie, learning and film.
10.30 – Exploration workshop examining the themes, context, characters, ideas and plot of the film as well as examining the acting styles and direction.
12.30 – Lunch (please bring your own), teas and coffees can be purchased
13.30 – Watching the film explored in the workshop
Based on the novel by Emily Bronte written around 1846, this film, directed by Emerald Fennell is, in her words, ‘a personal take’ on the tempestuous novel from the early wildness of young Catherine and Heathcliff who are inseparable through to the explosive chemistry, desolation and discord as events take their toll.
Catherine Earnshaw (Margot Robbie) is the melodramatic, high spirited but spiteful daughter of the initially kind-hearted Mr Earnshaw (Martin Clunes) who adopts an orphaned boy, living on the streets of Liverpool and brings him to live with them. Heathcliff (Jacob Elordi) is a ‘ragged, black-haired child… a dark-skinned gipsy in aspect’ who is spat on by Catherine at first. However, their unbreakable bond, while spirited and everlasting, is ill-fated and their unending misery creates a generational cycle of abuse and destruction begging to be broken.
Fennell’s interpretation which focuses on the first half of the novel, has been described as having ‘big-budget production and cinematic style values…working on its own terms as a nuanced romantic tragedy’ and while it does not cover the whole story as told by Nelly, the housekeeper (Hong Chau), the dark tales of abuse, revenge and doomed love are reflected in the tortured anti-hero, Heathcliff and the ill-fated Catherine.
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