Wuthering Heights (song) 18, within a few hours late at night on 5 March 1977. She was inspired after seeing the 1967 BBC adaptation of the 1847 novel "Wuthering Heights". She then read the book and discovered that she shared her birthday with author Emily Brontë. "Wuthering Heights" is sung from the perspective of the "Wuthering Heights" character Catherine Earnshaw, pleading at Heathcliff's window to be allowed in. It quotes Catherine's dialogue, including the chorus lyric "Let me in! I'm so cold!" and "bad dreams in the night". Critic Simon Reynolds described it as "Gothic romance distilled into four-and-a-half minutes of gaseous rhapsody".
Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights rights to the simple title "Wuthering Heights" due to the copyright on their 1939 film version of the novel. The film stars Ralph Fiennes as the tortured Heathcliff and Juliette Binoche as the free-spirited Catherine Earnshaw, in a precursor to their later, successful collaboration on "The English Patient". The role of Heathcliff opened up doors for Ralph Fiennes to play Amon Goeth in "Schindler's List". American director Steven Spielberg claimed he liked Fiennes for Goeth because of his "dark sexuality." The film received mostly negative reviews from film critics. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of