Emerald Fennell’s Pursuit of Provocation

The quotation marks around the title of Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights are a copy editor’s nightmare, and a savvy filmmaker’s idea of a gimmick, or maybe plausible deniability. “I think it’s a lot of things,” explained the Oscar-winning director in an interview with Fandango about the stylized moniker of her stridently artificial, Charli xcx–ified adaptation of the novel for her third feature, which stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as Cathy and Heathcliff. “Primarily it’s [because] the book means so much to me, and it means so much to so many people.”