• Emma Mackey plays Emily Brontë (1818-1848), author of "Howling Heights" in Frances O'Connor's "Emily".
  • The actress makes the film vibrate with her sensitivity.
  • Its sensitive interpretation allows us to better understand the gestation of this masterpiece of English literature.

Costume films succeed Emma Mackey, discovered thanks to the series Sex Education. No sooner had we left her in Martin Bourboulon's Eiffel and Kenneth Branagh's Death on the Nile than she was back in the title role of Frances O'Connor's Emily. She plays Emily Brontë (1818-1848), author of Les Hauts de Hurlevent, in this biopic that captures the creative process of the novelist.



"What's amazing is that the whole Brontë family was passionate about writing," Mackey told 20 Minutes. The three Brontë sisters lived under the same roof in the countryside and gave literary masterpieces. Charlotte and Jane Eyre, Anne and L aLady of Wildfell Hall Manor have also made an impression, but this film focuses on Emily, a young homebody woman who has drawn on her imagination to write a dark, romantic and fantastic book.

The path of creation

Between a cultured father and a brother victim of terrible addictions, Emily finds the path of literary creation in a world where women often have to sign their works under male pseudonyms before they can be (re)known. "Emily's life wasn't easy, but that's where she learned to use her imagination," Mackey said. She probably wouldn't have written Les Hauts de Hurlevent if she had lived under different circumstances. »

Emma Mackey brings a deep sensitivity to this character from another time that she manages to make current. She then radically changed register to discover another more colorful world, that of Barbie by Greta Erwig, where she will embody from July 19 a character still kept secret.

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