wuthering heights

When I was a schoolboy, this book changed my world. It made me realise England as a bigger place than the cities I listened to in Smiths songs; it made me daydream in terms of heartache and candlelight and ghosts and damp and the moors. I took from it a woman's perspective that felt honest and rich and unhindered by the expectations of a woman's "proper" place and point of view. It felt outsider. It was a book I felt I could smell. And I would think about Heathcliff, what it would mean to be him or to love someone like that. I am feeling incredibly optimistic about a film version that is raw and hand-held and draws from the elements of nature. I am very much looking forward to seeing this new take on a "period film." It has been described as being like a kitchen sink drama set on the moors. I have high hopes that this film might help define my winter.