Grim and dark this is the perfect choice for those sick and tired of the usual sugary romcom fair. It is a satisfying but tortured arc that carries Healthcliff from relative innocence to tortured and sadistic villainy - which Fiennes would later put to good use in "Schindler's List. If the plodding and superficial movie classic from 1939 turned you off Bronte, the deeper character development and dark intensity of this adaptation will awaken you to what all the fuss was about when Bronte introduced her only novel to the world in 1847. It received a poor reception as the depiction of mental cruelty and social hypocrisy were deemed controversial to Victorian sensibilities and it is exactly this stark and harsh commentary on the times that is embraced to great effect in this movie.

When writing this review I abstain myself from reading all other review first. "Wuthering Heights (1992)" is the best romance genre of all time and it's not only that (romance), it has many element that is not available in the usual romance genre. It has an horror element (or more preferably they call it Gothic), mystery, tragedy, revenge, and more.If you never read the book as I myself have read it you would be interested the moment Mr. Lockwood entered the Haunted House of Wuthering Heights. Would it be rousing to know why there is a young woman sitting in the dark when Mr. Lockwood entered Wuthering Heights? And that young woman while bear the same name with woman protagonist it's not actually the protagonist? I've forgotten how I felt the first time I watched "Wuthering Heights", but in this third time I still find how love or romance could be that intense and exciting to watch. "Wuthering Heights" not only very entertaining but also genius. It's not easy to find a movie that both smart and entertaining, because mostly it's smart but boring or entertaining but the artificiality is obvious.This is the best Wuthering Heights version because I haven't watched the other versions and now about to. The soundtrack so eerily romantic. When you see Juliette Binoche as Catherine you see her eyes is like fire burning so adamant which makes your heart vibrates. The scenery is just sometimes breathtaking combine with the music. And no other actors can be as Heathcliff as Ralph Fiennes even if he said he isn't. And no other characters of Juliette Binoche in her movies could made me so satisfying to look at her than "Wuthering Heights". You never know a fiery love before watching "Wuthering Heights".

The film is very good. There is no doubt about that. The only problem is that individual episodes from the characters' lives are cut too abruptly. Decades pass by like seconds... At times, the actions almost look like photos in an album. You simply cannot pay enough attention to every single detail. It is obvious that the director and screenwriter have both expected that every single viewer has read the book, which is, sadly enough, not the case. People who didn't read the book may struggle to understand Heathcliff's actions or his complex inner world.But, considering the fact that the filming of such an intense story about love and mad passion is extremely difficult,next to impossible, I must admit that this is, by far, the best attempt at it anyone has ever made.

Wuthering Heights is one of my favorite romantic English novels.That's why I was curios to see all the movies based on this book. Unfornutately, this version was a great disappointment for me, taking into consideration the actors chosen for playing Cathy and Heathcliff. Will all due respect, Fiennes and Binoche are too "soft" and unconvincing, compared with the wild, intensely passionate and powerful characters they were supposed to play. On the other hand, I think that the physical resemblance of the actors with the characters imagined in the book are also extremely important, in order to give force and credibility to the cinematographic version of the novel. For these reasons, in my opinion, the best film based on Bronte's Wuthering Heights remains the one made in 1939, with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon.