Review of Wuthering Heights (1992) by God? — 01 May 2006

With some editing issues aside, this is Kosminsky's masterpiece. Though Binoche tends to dwell into the realm of naïve acting, which doesn't all account well for her dual performance... it is Ralph Fiennes, in his first major motion picture part, that completely steals the show.

Hailed as the performance that made him into the Amon Goeth of Schindler's List, Ralph Fiennes takes hold of Heathcliff with a deep complexity interwoven with the all-too-familiar desperation that love can bring him.

Born for the roles of The Engish Patient's Count Almásy; Onegin's Evgeny Onegin; and Sunshine's three Sonnenschein generations, this is another crowning achievement, with an unrivalled intensity, and a revelation break-down at the end of the second act that will leave you completely breathless.

Once again, or should one say, for the first time, he proves to all that he truly is the most human, and quite possibly the greatest actor, to have ever graced the earth. And I mean this, because however much you despise Binoche for her lackluster performance here, you just won't care when Fiennes comes onto the screen.