“Emily” – Wherever I may find her [MOVIE REVIEW]
Emma Mackey as Emily. Photo courtesy of Bleecker Street. Actress Frances O’Connor, in her feature writing and directing debut, has tried to translate her fascination with the enigma that was Emily Bronte into a fanciful biography. Scant actual information about Emily Bronte exists. She was reclusive by nature, suffering from an anxiety disorder that kept her close to home. She made several attempts at leaving her Yorkshire homestead, but she always returned quite quickly. She and her sister Charlotte (Jane Eyre) had plans to open a school that eventually came to naught. Primarily home schooled, she was an excellent pianist and was fluent in German and French. What Emily loved was the countryside around the family home in Yorkshire and writing poetry. There were four surviving Bronte siblings, raised by their father and aunt after the death of their mother. The two eldest children had died at the school that Charlotte and Emily briefly attended. Barely explored in O’Connor’s fanciful tale are the poetry writing projects that the three sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne, shared. All, including brother Branwell, loved to write. O’Connor portrays Emily as a non-conformist, losing…
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