“Hurlewind” on Canal Plus: the turbulent child of Baz Lurhmann and Sofia Coppola (review)

Excessive, noisy, the adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel by Emerald Fennell ends up seducing by imposing with forceps its aesthetic nourished by Instagram and dark romance.

“Wolfwind” is broadcast for the first time this Tuesday evening on Canal Plus, and available for streaming on MyCanal. Released at the start of the year in cinemas, this new adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel, carried by Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, was rather a commercial success (240 million dollars in revenue worldwide for 80 million budget), despite a mixed reception from the press. HAS Firstwe let ourselves be seduced by this pop rereading of the classic of gothic literature. Our review:

Even before the first image, we understand that Emerald Fennell will not do lace. On a black screen, a death rattle is heard, which we do not immediately understand whether it is of agony or pleasure. Then the first scene reveals to us that the cries are those of a man being hanged in a public square, overcome by an erection as he takes his last breath. In the audience, little Catherine Earnshaw, eternal heroine of Wuthering Heightsattends astounded at this barbaric celebration mixing sex and death. Then the child goes running in the moor to the background of Charli concept art abandoned by Tim Burton on the corner of a table…

Welcome to Stormwind, welcome to “Stormwind” (note the quotation marks, a way of saying that the adaptation will not be very scrupulous), a hyperbolic, noisy and proud version of Emily Brontë’s novel, a masterpiece that has traveled to all states and all latitudes, adapted among others to classic Hollywood (by William Wyler, 1939), Mexican (Luis Bunuel, 1954), Nouvelle Vague (Rivette, 1986), Japanese (Yoshishige Yoshida, 1988), feverish British (Andrea Arnold, 2011), until, therefore, today suffering the outrages of Emerald Fennell, director of rape and revenge fluorescent Promising Young Woman and the little feeling Saltburna neo-Theorem nicely flirtatious….