Frances O'Connor's Brontë Film Is Less Biopic

Frances O'Connor's Brontë Film Is Less Biopic, More Tragic Romance

"Emily" is a bold introduction to Brontë: She's here to do opium, fall in love, write a great novel, and die... and she's all out of opium.

Frances O'Connor: 'I'm putting Emily Brontë in the centre of her own ...

The actor turned writer-director is taking an unconventional approach to her feature film debut about the Wuthering Heights author.

The Emily Brontë Biopic Reduces the Author of Wuthering Heights to ...

Every era, accordingly, tends to create an Emily Brontë in its own image, and Frances O'Connor's film Emily is a prime example of this: ...

The Surprising True Details In The Emily Brontë Biopic - British Vogue

Director Frances O'Connor's 'Emily' is less a strict biopic than an attempt to imagine what might have inspired Emily Brontë to write ...

In Francis O'Connor's 'Emily,' What's Fact and What's Fiction? - Collider

What audiences might not know is that a traditional biopic this is not — the movie is a highly fictionalized, imagined version of Brontë's life ...

EMILY film review — an impassioned biopic of Wuthering Heights ...

In the film EMILY, Emma Mackey brings Emily Brontë to vivid life in writer/director Frances O'Connor's thrilling blend of fact and fiction.

Director Frances O'Connor on blending fact and fiction in Emily

Since the dawn of cinema, historical biopics have been popular with both filmmakers and fans. Some are often almost documentary-like in ...

EMILY: Frances O'Connor's Brontë Film Is Less Biopic, More Tragic ...

EMILY: Frances O'Connor's Brontë Film Is Less Biopic, More Tragic Romance ... Film critic, Ithaca College and University of St Andrews graduate, head of the " ...

Emily Is Not the Biopic Emily Brontë Deserves - Jacobin

That's pretty much the level actor Frances O'Connor is working on in making her film debut as writer-director of this version of Emily Brontë's ...

A new Emily Brontë biopic joins the dots between life and literature

Frances O'Connor's film Emily, a portrait of the Wuthering Heights ... The sisters gaze up at him in the pulpit, looking less like part ...

'Emily' Works as a Brontë Biopic, but its Construction is Flawed

Despite Frances O'Connor's best efforts to unravel and reconstruct ... O'Connor's film is about the famed middle-child Brontë, who died ...

British Vogue | Director Frances O'Connor's Emily Brontë biopic ...

... Frances O'Connor's Emily Brontë biopic (starring #EmmaMackey as Brontë) is less a strict retelling than an attempt to imagine what might ...

Emily: Frances O'Connor's Atmospheric Debut - Nouse

I feel compelled to point out that Emily is not a biopic; at least, not in the same way that Baz Luhrmann's Elvis (2022) or even Andrew ...

Film Review: Frances O'Connor defies convention with Emily, a ...

Brontë purists might stick their nose up at what Emily has to offer, so it should be noted that O'Connor's work leans more into fiction than ...

'The book really spoke to me': Frances O'Connor brings Emily Bronte ...

But Frances O'Connor insists the 1978 classic wasn't heard once on the set of Emily, a film that's part biopic and part attempt to imagine how ...

'Emily': Between Fact And Fiction - Screen Queens

Bleecker Street The announcement of an Emily Brontë biopic was always going to generate excitement among the niche cross-section of film ...

Frances O'Connor's 'Emily' is more romance than biography

O'Connor's “Emily” is definitely more of a fictionalized, gothic romance than a biography. The movie captures the essence of Emily Brontë as an author.

Review: becoming Brontë in Emily - Reflections on a Silver Screen

Such is the case with Emily, a new film written and directed by Frances O'Connor in her directorial debut, that tells the life story of the ...

Emily Review: Brontë biopic takes us to new heights - The Mancunion

Emily Brontë's life is somewhat inaccurately but powerfully depicted by Frances O'Connor and avoids becoming another cliché biopic.

A new film's liberties with Emily Brontë may 'court controversy.' Is that ...

But it's this enigmatic quality that makes her the perfect inspiration for a film — most recently, writer-director Frances O'Connor's “Emily.” O ...