Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi front a bold, vivid new take on Emily Brontë’s timelessly stormy romance.

In the late 18th century, Catherine Earnshaw finds warmth growing up on the Yorkshire moors through her friend, the mysterious outcast Heathcliff, but they are soon torn apart when a well-heeled family takes her in. Heathcliff’s attachment, however, will not die easily – and as time and class keep pushing them away, it grows more dangerous than anyone can handle. Writer-director Emerald Fennell combines her bravura cinematic style (Saltburn, Promising Young Woman) and experience with famous romances (Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella) for a new version of the classic novel: one as fierce, uncomfortable, and mesmerising as its own central romance. Yorkshire, astoundingly filmed by La La Land cinematographer Linus Sandgren, adds to its force and beauty more than ever.