In ‘Emily,’ Emily Brontë Gets To Be A Real Girl

Twenty minutes into Emily, the new film about Emily Brontë that isn’t so much a biopic, but a character study told in birdsong soundscape, lingering glances, and unadulterated angst – there is a seance of sorts. In the scene, Emily, played by Sex Education’s Emma Mackey, her siblings, and William Weightman, the priest she’s crushing on, are horsing around with a white Phantom of the Opera-style mask. They’re each trying it on, pretending to be the ghosts of the dead. But instead of conjuring, say, Marie Antoinette, Emily becomes the ghost of the Brontës’ dead mother. The window bursts open… Read Full Article