Wuthering Heights

One of the most influential and powerful love stories of classic literature receives one of the finest cinema adaptations. Faithful to its origins Arnold handles the romantic plot line with great violence through passionate characters and lyrical images. Obsessed with cinema, she emphasises on the importance of image and the power of silence, positioning romanticism to its origins, on absolute originality of artistic inspiration. An experience based on strong emotions involving horror, terror, violence, sex, blood and spit. Fascinated with the character of Heathcliff, she chose her lead actor to be black stating his difference is of massive importance. She approaches Heathcliff’s childhood and the brutality surrounding this childhood in order to reveal his dark side as an adult. In the age of cynicism and sarcasm Arnold dares to adapt a doomed love story, dares to be romantic, dares to be emotional, dares to instinctively love. (Nina Veligradi)