Wuthering Heights (1954 film)
In 1931, Buñuel and Pierre Unik wrote a screenplay based on the 1847 Emily Brontë novel Wuthering Heights but plans to film it fell through.Buñuel's producer, Oscar Dancigers, brought the idea back in the 1950s and was able to secure funding.[3] In 1983, New York Times film critic Vincent Canby called it "an almost magical example of how an artist of genius can take someone else's classic work and shape it to fit his own temperament without really violating it.".[4] In 2002, Slant writer Ed Gonzalez called it better than William Wyler's critically acclaimed 1939 adaption,[5] saying "Unlike William Wyler’s inferior 1939 film adaptation, Luis Buñuel’s Abismos de Pasión is more than a literate extrapolation of Emily Bronte’s gothic masterpiece Wuthering Heights,".[6] In 1988, Chicago Reader critic Jonathan Rosenbaum gave a mixed review, stating that it "discards the original novel’s framing strategy of telling the story from the viewpoint of two outsiders", which he calls a "regrettable elision", though he also says that "Buñuel’s low-budget melodrama has a certain gothic ferocity that’s missing in the other versions".