Critics at the time were mixed. While praising Fiennes’ physical intensity, many felt the film succumbed to the “romance novel” trap, sanding off the novel’s misanthropic edges. It is, in retrospect, the last great “traditional” Wuthering Heights : a film that believes in star-crossed souls, even as it shows them destroying everyone around them.
The film famously features almost no musical score, relying instead on the diegetic sounds of howling Yorkshire wind, squelching mud, rain, and animal calls. wuthering heights 1992 2021