Emily

Emily (2022) is a biographical drama about the young Emily Brontë you can watch online on iFILM, and the directorial debut of Australian actress Frances O'Connor. Emma Mackey plays Emily as someone poorly fitted for her time — solitary, strange, prone to violent feeling, most alive when left alone on the Yorkshire moors.

O'Connor invents where history is silent. William Weightman (Oliver Jackson-Cohen), the charming curate who boards with the Brontë family, becomes Emily's first and only love — a passion neither of them can act on or put down. Finn Whitehead plays her brother Branwell, her closest ally and eventually someone she cannot save.

This is not the respectable literary portrait. O'Connor's Emily is raw, inconvenient, funny in unsettling ways — and by the time the film ends, you understand exactly how someone this damaged and this singular could have written Wuthering Heights. Watch Emily (2022) online on iFILM.