The latest work from English filmmaker Emerald Fennell — who cultivated a sizable following with her tawdry 2023 dark comedy Saltburn — is a loose adaptation of Emily Bronte’s 1847 Wuthering Heights — loose being a charitable term doing more than its share of heavy lifting — and a reflection of a stark literary crisis plaguing our modern age.

As with any literary adaptation, this new Wuthering Heights must be judged on two fronts: as a stand-alone film and as an interpretation of Bronte’s source material.

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Fennell casts Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as the ill-fated pair Cathy and Heathcliff. Covering only the first half of the novel — and even then liberally excising characters and developments deemed inconvenient or overly complicated — the film traces their tempestuous relationship from the day Cathy’s father, Earnshaw (Martin Clunes, who delivers the film’s finest performance), brings the orphaned Heathcliff home.

Bronte’s novel is a multifaceted masterpiece that engages questions of class, social hierarchy, and whether moral choice can overcome inheritance and........

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