    • Pin It 'Wuthering Heights'  'Wuthering Heights' (November
29, 2012)   I saw the film, a noble mixed bag full of sharp
objects, a few weeks ago. What I remember most clearly about it
now is its paradoxical dankness. Photographed like a breathless
nature documentary in windy, swampy, muddy North Yorkshire by
cinematographer Robbie Ryan, who has worked on all of Arnold's
feature-length and short films to date, this "Wuthering Heights"
exists on a deglamorized planet far, far away from the best-
known film adaptation of the story to date, William Wyler's 1939
showcase for Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier.  Heathcliff, the
novel's Gypsy-blooded "exotic," is no longer simply that. He is
black, a Liverpool resident of the streets adopted by Mr.
Earnshaw (Paul Hilton) and relocated to the moors and the
hostile stares of Wuthering Heights. Arnold's casting — Solomon
Glave plays young Heathcliff, a boy, then played a few years
older by James Howson — shortcuts and crystallizes the 19th
century outsider's angst.