While she revealed that she wanted to move away from the filming of the series Sex Education, which revealed her to the general public, we find Emma Mackey in Emily, on March 15. In this biopic ofEmily Brontë, she plays the title role.
The story of the life of Emily Brontë is fascinating, just go to her Wikipedia page to realize it. That's why we don't understand why the filmmaker, Frances O'Connor, decided to tell a fiction. Moreover, the fictional aspect of this fake biopic is assumed, but at no time is the viewer warned of this liberty, so it is easy to believe that this love story lived by Emily Brontë is real, when it is not.
In Emily, Frances O'Connor imagines the journey that led the young woman to write Wuthering Heights, her only novel. And to justify the existence of this unique, marginal, deeply dark and cruel work, she has found nothing better than to tell a story of heartbreak. Besides showing a lack of imagination, this makes Emily a feature film full of clichés seen a thousand times.
Watching the film, one thinks of Pride and Prejudice, or even The Daughters of Dr. March, whose storyline here and there picks up the twists and turns. In doing so, the film completely misses its subject. Writing is barely mentioned, whereas it should be the driving force of the story. The director prefers to film these young girls in bloom running in the rain and dreaming of beautiful love affairs, which we don't really care about. Moreover, Emily Brontë is portrayed as marginal and rebellious, which she most certainly was in reality. However, the film only portrays her as a bored middle-class girl. Nothing in her actions makes her a real "freak", as those who know her call her.
We will not make a complete list of the clichés used in the film, nor its arrangements with history(Jane Eyre, written by her sister Charlotte, and yet published the same year as Wuthering Heights, does not exist in this story). Even if we had to assume fiction, there was probably something better to tell than a romance full of clichés and instantly outdated, as we have seen the same story told over and over again in all media.
We can nevertheless salute the sets and costumes of the film, which allow an instant immersion in 19th century England, as well as the interpretation of Emma Mackey, who asserts herself as one of the talents to follow of this new generation.
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