The Guardian has recently included British director Andrea Arnold among top ten UK film directors. For starters, she won an Oscar with her 2005 short film Wasp. Then followed excellent feature-length films Red Road and Fish Tank, which both won the Cannes jury award.

Many consider her the leader of the new wave in British film. After urban and social topics, she has now come to grips with one of the most frequently adapted novels – Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.

However, instead of a classic, romanticist adaptation with full of beautiful landscapes, the director has come up with a totally stripped, radical and not a bit romantic melodrama.

Using hand-held camera shots and cold colors, she shapes a story about the hard life of the Earnshaw family. The father brings a dark-skinned boy to their home in the isolated Yorkshire moors. There the boy develops an obsessive relationship with the farmer’s daughter, Catherine. As the children grow, the family members and their neighbors are caught up in a conflict fuelled by overblown egos.

This totally different version of Wuthering Heights will be shown as part of Great 5 program. The program can be seen in Cinema Tuškanac and Museum of Contemporary Art.