Wuthering Heights (1985)
Heathcliff, It’s Me: Adapting Wuthering Heights
February 24 - 27, 2017
Jacques Rivette’s radical reinterpretation transforms this tale of white-hot love and fury into a coolly stylized, almost ritualistic chamber drama, foregoing blazing passion in favor of a mannered, Gallic moodiness.
Jacques Rivette’s radical reinterpretation transforms this earthy tale of white-hot love and fury in the English countryside into a coolly stylized, almost ritualistic chamber drama. Relocating the story to a chateau in 1931 France, it downplays the central romance—here between the rather-more-detached-than-usual Roc (Lucas Belvaux) and Catherine (Fabienne Babe)—foregoing blazing passion in favor of a mannered, Gallic moodiness. The look is a bit like a sun-dappled Cezanne watercolor, while the soundtrack intermittently blasts Bulgarian folk music. What results is a fascinating, boldly iconoclastic experiment in literary deconstruction. Print courtesy of the Institut Français.
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