from now on, we shall call him miss celia amelia. i'm a fool. no, you're not.l| than not live at all. you're an embarrassment to us. do you know what they call you in the village? - stop it, charlotte. no! they call you the strange one. and you are. mother would be ashamed i to see who you've become. every time i come home, i see more and more what you are becoming. i i won't let you drag me down. i won't! i'm going to make something of myself. charlotte... so, this is written and directed by frances o'connor, who of course is an actor—turned—director. making her directorial feature debut and i think she does a terrificjob of it. the first thing to say is, in much the same way as andrew dominik�*s blonde is not a biopic about marilyn munro, this is not a biopic about emily bronte. this is much more an imagined life, it's an attempt to put on screen the emotions and feelings of the writing, and to do it in an inventive way that perhaps lets you into the real—life character more. but it's not factual, it's not tied to factual detail. i thought it was great, partl