Emily - Special Academy Screening

IFTA and Warner Bros. Pictures are delighted to invite you and a guest to this Special Preview Screening of EMILY.

EMILY tells the imagined life of one of the world’s most famous authors, Emily Brontë. The film stars Emma Mackey (Sex Education, Death on the Nile) as Emily, a rebel and misfit, as she finds her voice and writes the literary classic ‘Wuthering Heights’.

Frances O'Connor's film explores the relationships that inspired her – her raw, passionate sisterhood with Charlotte (Alexandra Dowling – The Musketeers) and Anne (Amelia Gething – The Spanish Princess); her first aching, forbidden love for Weightman (Oliver Jackson-Cohen – The Lost Daughter, The Haunting of Bly Manor) and her care for her maverick brother Branwell (Fionn Whitehead – The Duke, Dunkirk), whom she idolises.The film also stars Adrian Dunbar (Line of Duty) and Gemma Jones (Bridget Jones’s Baby, Gentleman Jack) 

EMILY is the directorial debut for Frances O’Connor. She is an Australian-English actress who is best known for her roles of ‘Fanny Price’ & ‘Gwendolen Fairfax’ in the films Mansfield Park alongside Hugh Bonneville and Harold Pinter, & TThe Importance of Being Earnest alongside Judi Dench & Colin Firth and the TV series’, Madame Bovary and The Missing. Her performance in both shows earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. 
 

4 Stars. "Thrilling”
The Guardian

“A wonderful directorial debut from Frances O'Connor”
The Independent

“This is THE breakout role for Emma Mackey...A beautiful story that makes your heart race and break”
Ada Enechi, BuzzFeed 

EMILY will be released in UK & Irish cinemas on 14^th October 2022.