What better way to spend Valentine’s Day than a love story at the flicks? So that’s what we did. But this wasn’t any old love story. Oh no. This was the latest cinematic reimagining of Emily Brontë’s epic novel Wuthering Heights, as sweeping as the desolate Yorkshire landscape it’s set against. This new version was produced, written and directed by the multi-talented Emerald Fennell, and her take on this Gothic classic has divided opinion. Some purists see it as too far removed from the written word. Yes, Fennell does play fast and loose with the original plot – as have others before her. Nevertheless, the intense, obsessive and destructive love which lies at the heart of this timeless tale had us hooked from the very first scene, touching and disturbing in equal measure. This was no lightweight Barbara Taylor Bradford Sunday night period mini-soap. We were glued to the screen all the way to the very bitter end.

Drop-dead gorgeous Margot Robbie and the sex-on-legs Jacob Elordi strut and sizzle, bonk and bristle, utterly convincing as the doomed lovers, Catherine and Heathcliff. It’s hardly a spoiler alert to say it doesn’t end well. The supporting cast is excellent too. A special mention has to go to both the location – the wild and wuthering moody moors of God’s own county – and a stonking soundtrack that struck the right broody note.

Here’s the trailer…