André Téchiné, 1979, 120 min.
with Isabelle Adjani, Isabelle Huppert, Marie-France Pisier, Pascal Greggory
In early nineteenth-century Haworth, England, the Brontë children—Charlotte, Emily, Anne and Branwell—show great talent for writing. Charlotte and Anne become tutors, while Emily remains on the moors. Charlotte and Emily travel to Europe to improve their French, but their plans change. Branwell descends into alcohol and drugs. Emily dies of tuberculosis after the publication of Wuthering Heights. Anne’s death follows. Charlotte, the only one of the four siblings to succeed during her lifetime, marries a vicar who had long admired her.