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Like Buñuel before him, Rivette transformed Brontë's novel into an intensely personal vision of obsession and sensual enslavement. As erotic as it is cerebral, WUTHERING HEIGHTS transposes the novel from nineteenth-century England to the rugged, bleak French countryside in 1931. “In HURLEVENT, the erotic field around Catherine is so enormous, her physical presence so profound, that she seems capable of knocking down walls. As Roch (the Heathcliff character), Lucas Belvaux is the burningly introverted, immovable object against which her irresistible force moves. . . . The tension is evident in the first shot, of the young lovers embracing on a bed of black stone, and grows more intense throughout the film. . . . One could not ask for a more lovely or rending meditation on the principle that character is fate” (Mark Hunter).
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