{"id":5268,"date":"2025-04-24T11:19:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T11:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/?p=5268"},"modified":"2025-04-24T18:19:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T18:19:38","slug":"netflix-quietly-adds-striking-movie-about-beloved-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/netflix-quietly-adds-striking-movie-about-beloved-author\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix quietly adds \u2018striking\u2019 movie about beloved author"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A movie about the life of Wuthering Heights author Emily Bronte is now on Netflix (Picture: Michael Wharley)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A \u2018beautifully imagined portrait\u2019 of the life of writer Emily Bronte is now available to watch on Netflix<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Released in 2022, the biographical drama Emily<\/a> is a part-fictionalised take on the author, best known for her only novel Wuthering Heights<\/a>, now considered a classic of English literature<\/a>.<\/p>\n

During her life Bronte, who published under the pen name Ellis Bell, also wrote a book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte and Anne titled Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell.<\/p>\n

Despite her being one of the most celebrated English authors across history, her solitary nature while she was alive has made it difficult for biographers and historians to discover more about her.<\/p>\n

It was said Emily never made any friends outside of her family and that she was unsociable and had an extremely shy nature. In 1848, at the age of 30, Bronte died from tuberculosis.<\/p>\n

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However, a few years ago the film Emily, which starred Sex Education\u2019s Emma Mackey<\/a> as the titular character, sought to shine a light on her life.<\/p>\n

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Emily starred Emma Mackey as the writer (Picture: Michael Wharley\/ Bleecker Street Films via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Bront\u00eb vibrantly to life, Emily is a biopic that manages to feel true while taking entertaining creative liberties.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018A ravishing period drama that plays fast and loose with the facts in order to paint a portrait of the author that bleeds with the same heart-in-its-hands emotionality she had to suffuse into her work,\u2019 IndieWire wrote in its review.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Led by a stunning Emma Mackey, Emily is a striking depiction of a woman embracing her individuality while crafting an iconic piece of literature,\u2019 ScreenRant wrote.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img width=\"646\" height=\"363\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-22956247 lazyload\" alt=\"FILM: Emily (Warner Bros) (C)Warner Bros\/ Bleecker Street Films new movie : Emily (2022). Plot: Emily imagines the transformative, exhilarating, and uplifting journey to womanhood of a rebel and a misfit, one of the world's most famous, enigmatic, and provocative writers who died too soon at the age of 30.Caption: Emma Mackey as Emily Bront? with Oliver Jackson-Cohen as William WeightmanCast:Emma Mackey as Emily Bront?Fionn Whitehead as Branwell Bront?Oliver Jackson-Cohen as William WeightmanAlexandra Dowling as Charlotte Bront?Amelia Gething as Anne Bront?Adrian Dunbar plays Patrick BronteGemma Jones as Aunt Branwell\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SEI_248503432-a913.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>It took creative licence with telling her story, including a romance with a young curate (Picture: Warner Bros\/ Bleecker Street Films)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img width=\"646\" height=\"699\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-22956253 lazyload\" alt=\"This image released by Bleecker Street Films shows Emma Mackey in a scene from "Emily." (Michael Wharley\/Bleecker Street Films via AP)\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SEI_144311266-94b8-e1745505404513.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>One review said the film was ‘ravishing to the eye’ (Picture: Michael Wharley\/ Bleecker Street Films via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u2018Emily, pointedly, does not wallow in the misery we like to ascribe to her short and frequently tragic life. There is great buoyancy and humour in the film,\u2019 The Independent added.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Metro\u2019s review read: \u2018Unevenly paced, but ravishing to the eye, it\u2019s a movie that could be ripped from the pages of Vogue. The cinematography is sublime. Some bits work, others don\u2019t so much. But it\u2019s ambitious and almost painfully heartfelt. Less a movie and more a sensational example of Bront\u00eb fan fiction.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2022\/08\/11\/frances-oconnor-on-her-upcoming-directorial-debut-about-emily-bronte-17162867\/\">In an interview with Metro<\/a>, director Frances O\u2019Connor said viewers shouldn\u2019t expect an historical account of Bronte\u2019s all-too-short life.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I\u2019ve taken inspiration from certain elements from Wuthering Heights, and also the biographies that I read, and put those pieces together to create a narrative, which is not a biopic. It\u2019s more like its own thing,\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img width=\"646\" height=\"428\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-22956292 lazyload\" alt=\"Aimee Lou Wood as Aimee Gibbs, Emma Mackey as Maeve Wiley and Asa Butterfield as Otis Milburn 'Sex Education' TV Show Season 2 - 2020 A teenage boy with a sex therapist mother teams up with a high school classmate to set up an underground sex therapy clinic at school. Editorial use only. No book cover usage. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Sam Taylor\/Eleven\/Netflix\/Kobal\/Shutterstock (10567733i)\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SEI_98765441-4c5c-e1745492290517.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>Emma is best known for starring in Sex Education alongside Aimee Lou Wood and Asa Butterfield (Picture: Sam Taylor\/ Eleven\/ Netflix\/ Kobal\/ Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Discussing the appeal of Bront\u00eb, she added: \u2018She\u2019s a mystery, we know so little about her \u2013 and I\u2019m an introvert and this character is an introvert! She died when she was 30 and yet she wrote this gargantuan piece of work and there\u2019s so much in it. You can kind of feel who she was through the novel.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018She was somebody who suffered from things that just seemed very modern \u2013 she had social anxiety and she struggled with her sense of who she was, and her relationship with her sisters feels very real.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Emily also stars Fionn Whitehead, Alexandra Dowling and Adrian Dunbar.<\/p>\n<p>Although a letter from her publisher indicated that Emily had begun to write a second novel, the manuscript has never been found.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Emily is streaming on Netflix.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Got a story?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">If you\u2019ve got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\">Metro.co.uk<\/a> entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@metro.co.uk, calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/submit-stuff\/\">Submit Stuff<\/a> page – we\u2019d love to hear from you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A movie about the life of Wuthering Heights author Emily Bronte is now on Netflix (Picture: Michael Wharley) A \u2018beautifully imagined portrait\u2019 of the life of writer Emily Bronte is now available to watch on Netflix. Released in 2022, the biographical drama Emily is a part-fictionalised take on the author, best known for her only novel Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. 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