Feted British writer/director Andrea Arnold effects a brave leap from the urban, contemporary setting of Red Road and Fish Tank, to Emily Brontë's beloved rural 19th-century love story. It's an earthy, elemental dramatisation, with a stripped back screenplay by the director and Olivia Hetreed. You can almost smell the Yorkshire moors in the weather-beaten locations, shot in shallow focus so that we can seemingly reach out and touch every hair on a horse's head, every snagged thread of wool on a thistle. With detailed natural sound design, no score and a young, unknown cast - Shannon Beer and Solomon Glave are particularly striking as the young Cathy and Heathcliff (who, in this provocative version, is black) - Arnold chases the action, handheld, like a Bourne movie. It's a boldly modernist approach designed to irritate purists, and although it's pleasingly tactile, it's perhaps too avant garde; its fractured narrative and glimpses of lens flare constantly break the spell of the period fiction.