Actor turned writer-director, Frances O’Connor’s directorial debut is a reimagined biopic of passionate introvert Emily Brontë. Uninterested in being involved in respectable society or becoming a teacher like her older sister Charlotte, Emily prefers to live in her imagined stories, writing poetry and wandering the moors with her rebellious older brother Branwell.

But her contentment is shaken with the arrival of new parish assistant Mr Weightman, as they turn each other’s worlds upside-down, embarking on a passionate and forbidden affair.

Emma Mackey bringing Brontë vibrantly to life, Emily is a biopic that manages to feel true while taking entertaining creative liberties exploring the authors source and inspiration  for the passionate and dark literary classic Wuthering Heights.

Festivals:

Toronto International Film Festival 2022

Stockholm International Film Festival 2022

Awards:

Winner - Best Director, Frances O Connor, Stockholm International Film Festival 2022

Quotes:

‘★★★★ This is a sensually imaginative dive into the life of the Wuthering Heights author: it is a real passion project for O’Connor, with some wonderfully arresting insights.’’

-Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

‘’Connor’s well-modulated debut doesn’t pretend to be a faithful recreation of the facts of the Brontës’ lives. Instead it succeeds on a much trickier level, giving us a psychologically vivid Emily who did not write “Wuthering Heights” because a real-life romance unlocked her passionate nature, but whom we’d love to imagine having had such a grand affair, because she was always the woman with “Wuthering Heights” inside her.’’

- Jessica Kiang, Variety

‘Mackey, in particular, is a powerhouse. The young star is matched well with O’Connor’s carefully calibrated, appealingly earnest script, which approximates a modern sensibility without striking a false note or straying from Emily’s contemporaneous moors.’’

-Tara Brady, The Irish Times