emily @ 2022 cunard british film festival

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Starring Emma Mackey, EMILY is the highly entertaining back story of Emily Brönte. Emma Mackey is the actress who looks disarmingly like the actress, Margo Robbie (Margo Robbie, as recently seen in the movie AMSTERDAM).

EMILY provides classic fictional gothic storytelling drama, especially about female life and female conflict, with forbidden love, and her doomed love interest, the setting is 1840s English patriarchal society, with conflict between sisters and their grieving, plus female repression by the patriarchy..

We discover the wonderfully fictionalised/dramatised life and times of writer Emily Brönte, whilst her (first and only) classic novel “Wuthering Heights” was being written between October 1845 and June 1846, and was then first published in December 1847 under her pen name and pseudonym “Ellis Bell”.

Always introverted, she becomes the rebel and often the awkward misfit, her incredible journey rapidly unfolds when clergyman William Weightman is assigned to provide Emily Brontë with French Language lessons, a forbidden intimate relationship begins. Recommended.

STARRING – Emma Mackey, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Fionn Whitehead, Adrian Dunbar, Gemma Jones, Alexandra Dowling

Written and Directed by Frances O’Connor.

Running Time is 130 minutes.

Mostly in ENGLISH, and the FRENCH LANGUAGE scenes have ENGLISH SUBTITLES.

Australian Classification rated M (CONSUMER ADVICE: Sex Scenes).

Currently screening at Palace Cinemas during the 2022 CUNARD BRITISH FILM FESTIVAL.

COMING SOON to Australian Cinemas from Thursday 5th January 2023.

AUSTRALIAN CLASSIFICATION – https://www.classification.gov.au/titles/emily-3