Emerald Fennell curates “Love Stories”

A bespoke BFI IMAX programme running throughout February curated by Academy Award and BAFTA-winning writer-director-producer Emerald Fennell, complementing the release of her sweeping romantic drama, “Wuthering Heights”.

‘Since its publication two hundred years ago, critics have challenged Wuthering Heights’s validity as a love story. It is too shocking, too cruel, too narratively strange to slip neatly into the world of romance, but it is a love story nonetheless. While researching it, I rewatched many of my own favourite “love stories”, ones that challenged, subverted, even obliterated the conventions of the genre. These are stories which put the love story under duress, which stick a needle into the strawberry trifle, which show love in all its freakish, gory detail.’
– Emerald Fennell

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