Wuthering Heights (1992) | Juliette Binoche, Ralph Fiennes

Wuthering Heights (1992) | Juliette Binoche, Ralph Fiennes | often misread

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	Wuthering Heights (1992) Juliette Binoche, Ralph Fiennes Paramount, 2003 average customer review:based on 144 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The classic and tragic love story of Cathy and Heathcliff.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: PG
Release Date: 2-DEC-2003
Media Type: DVD

Love a speedy delivery!

I received this video quickly and much to my surprise. It is a good movie which really helped me to understand the book better.

often misread

Lots of people watch or read Wuthering Heights expecting a grand love story. It is NOT a love story; anything but!
It's a story of obsession, revenge and destruction, and finally of rebirth in the next generation. (Remind anybody of Tess of the D'Urbervilles? It should.)
This is an excellent film version. I watched it over twice in the same sitting. (And, I've read the book.)You could hardly imagine a more sinister tale better told than this. The main characters' utter devotion to their own little world at the thoughtless expense of all else comes through loud and clear.
I'm buying this DVD today to help my daughter better understand the themes of her next high school English assignment & I will have her watch it when she's finished the book; I have no doubt she will enjoy it. And I will enjoy watching it yet again!

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Fiennes and Binoche, simply outstanding

The performance of Binoche and Finness in Wuthering Heights was amazingly powerful. People often criticize the movie, but, I believe, the director was extraordinarily faithful to the original story. All criticism was directed at how sadistic Heathcliff(Ralph Fiennes) was towards everybody. It is the director's right to add or omit whatever he finds necessary to make a movie version of the book. In this case, the director's choice was to have the characters semi identical to the book's original ones.

It's very simple, if you loved the novel, you would love the movie and forgive the portions that were omitted, and admire the total focus on Heathcliff's anger, and evil side. It's not the movie/director/actors' fault that the novel original characters are actually defected, imperfect human beings.

Even though Wuthering Heights is a great piece of literature, a wild emotional story that is written in a fascinating way, the characters always puzzled me. If everybody is calling Heathcliff a sadistic crazy man, what then is Catherine? I believe that Catherine is even more sadistic and cruel than any other character in the novel.

Catharine was completely engaged in self worship and didn't care about any other human being. The only thing she loved about Heathcliff was his love and devotion to her. She enjoyed breaking his heart, breaking her husband's heart, and enjoyed torturing Edgar's sister with her sense of entitlement to Heathcliff and his love.

"..Why did you betray your heart Catherine?....I forgive my murderer, but yours, I will never forgive..." yeah, Fiennes got to me saying these words, but for the love of God, how delusional can people be? Nobody broke Heathcliff's heart but his Catherine, and no one killed Catherine.

Five stars, to Wuthering Heights for its timeless depiction of human dark side, and when I say dark side, I mean every character in the movie except Catharine the daughter. To me, Catharine the daughter is the only character with some common sense and virtue. I would give more than five stars to the movie if possible, simply because Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche captured so well, the darkest side of love and selfishness as the stars of a great novel.

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Great scenery but uninspired rendition

I understand the script of the movie closely matches the original classic, but results in a rather uninspired rendition that even Juliette Binoche and Ralf Fiennes can not enliven. The DVD is definitely worth it for anyone (like me) wanting to get to know the story without reading the novel but is otherwise a little tedious to watch.

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