2011’s Wuthering Heights Is the Horny, Twisted Romance Saltburn Wishes It Was

Andrea Arnold’s film adaptation of Wuthering Heights is intensely sensual and provocative – and that’s a good thing. The 2011 movie focuses on the raw, almost primal connection between its characters, depicting a doomed romance filled with longing, pain, and a desire for revenge. It prioritizes creating a visceral experience of love as something unsettling and consuming, rather than strictly following the plot of Emily Brontë’s novel. The film links the wildness of nature with our most basic, physical desires, building tension between restraint and giving in to impulse. In comparison, the explicit content in Saltburn feels tame by comparison.








