"Freedom in thought!!" Say it louder. Louder!! Bleecker Street has debuted the official US trailer for Emily, a fresh Emily Brontë biopic made by actress / filmmaker Frances O'Connor making her feature directorial debut. This first premiered at TIFF last year, and already opened in the UK in October - we posted the first trailer last year for it. Emily imagines the transformative, exhilarating, and uplifting journey to womanhood of a rebel and a misfit, one of the world's most famous, enigmatic, and provocative writers who died too soon at the age of 30. Delve into the mind that wrote "Wuthering Heights" – "so begins a journey to channel her creative potential into one of the greatest novels of all time." Young actress Emma Mackey (from "Sex Education" and Death on the Nile) stars as Emily, with Alexandra Dowling, Amelia Gething, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Adrian Dunbar, & Gemma Jones. I've heard mixed reviews on this film, some love it, some don't, so it's up to you depending on how much you're into Brontë and her writing. (Alex Billington in Firstshowing)

 We’ll freely admit it. English period-piece films about troubled poets feel kinda played and predictable, and dreary. But from all accounts, the new movie “Emily” about famous poet Emily Brontë and the events that inspired her seminal novel, “Wuthering Heights,” is a big winner. The film is the directorial debut of veteran actor turned filmmaker Frances O’Connor, known for starring in Steven Spielberg’s “A.I.: Artificial Intelligence,” which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival last fall, and critics raved, including ours. (Edward Davis in The Playlist)

 For anyone who’s taken a high school English course in the last fifty years, they’re probably familiar with Wuthering Heights, the seminal novel by British author Emily Brontë. A story of love, devotion — both good and bad — and loss, the novel has long outlasted its author, who died tragically at the age of thirty. But what do we know of Brontë herself? Writer-director Frances O’Connor seeks to answer that question with her new film, Emily, whose first trailer speaks of a story of becoming, rebelling against the thousands of odds set against women of Brontë's time. (Maggie Boccella in Collider)

Emma Mackey reaches new heights as ill-fated author Emily Brontë.
Set during the events that inspired “Wuthering Heights,” Frances O’Connor’s directorial debut “Emily” reimagines Brontë’s brush with love, embarking on an epic romance. Fionn Whitehead, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Alexandra Dowling, Adrian Dunbar, and Amelia Gething also star in the feature from Bleecker Street. (Samantha Bergeson in Indiewire)

Get ready to see a whole new side of Emily Brontë. On February 17, Emily, a new film from writer-director Frances O'Connor and starring Emma Mackey as Brontë will be released by Bleecker Street in the U.S.—and it isn't what you might expect.
Instead of being a traditional biopic, Emily —which features a cast including Olivier Jackson-Cohen and Fionn Whitehead—tells an imaginative, magical, and eccentric story about the writer before she became a legend. (Adam Rather in Town & Country)

 Heldigvis finnes det gode argumenter for å se «Emily», det beste er kanskje den halvmørke atmosfæren. Sola skinner sjelden, til gjengjeld gjør filmen god nytte av gråværet over de vidstrakte Yorkshire-slettene, der lyden av fugler, vind og regn skaper en slags natur-gotisk stemning. (...)

Regissør Frances O’Connor (som i likhet med «Little Women»-skaper Greta Gerwig har bakgrunn som skuespiller) har uansett begått en oppsiktsvekkende debutfilm. Selv om store deler av handlingen er fiksjon og mytologisering, skaper «Emily» betimelig fascinasjon og nysgjerrighet på kvinnen bak et av de viktigste verkene i engelskspråklig litteratur. (Einar Aarvig) (Translation)