Celebrate this coming Valentine’s Day with Emerald Fennell’s steamy adaptation of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights.
For her third feature, the Academy Award–winning Saltburn and Promising Young Woman writer-director joins forces with two of the most buzzworthy stars in Hollywood: Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi. They play Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, the passionate couple at the heart of Brontë’s classic. And from the looks of the film’s teaser trailer, Fennell is more than ready to embrace that passion, perhaps even upping the ante on the onscreen desire that shocked, awed, and sometimes even disgusted Saltburn viewers.
That passion is on display in a wide array of sensual imagery throughout the teaser: Cathy fixates on a shirtless Heathcliff and sticks her fingers in his mouth. Heathcliff cuts Cathy’s dress off and confesses, “I can follow you like a dog to the end of the world.” Plus, there’s more bread kneading and runny egg yolk fondling than a horny chef TikTok. (Viewers of an early test screening described the film as “aggressively provocative,” World of Reel reported. Bring it on.)
Of course, there’s a darker undertone to this passion, with the film’s taglines “Drive Me Mad” and “Come Undone” hinting at the tragedy to come.
The entire teaser is soundtracked by Charli XCX and Caroline Polachek’s “Everything is romantic” remix from Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat. The song choice hints at Charli XCX’s larger involvement in Wuthering Heights, as she’s written original songs for the film.
Wuthering Heights also stars Hong Chau, Shazad Latif, Alison Oliver, Martin Clunes, and Ewan Mitchell.
Wuthering Heights hits theaters Feb. 14.
