The Oscar-winning writer and director of Promising Young Woman, Saltburn and the forthcoming Wuthering Heights, Emerald Fennell has curated a bespoke season of love stories on screen for the BFI IMAX. Running throughout February, the season will coincide with the UK release of Wuthering Heights and highlights films that Fennell watched as research for adapting Emily Brontë’s novel.

“Since its publication two hundred years ago, critics have challenged Wuthering Heights’s validity as a love story,” Fennell writes. “While researching it, I rewatched many of my own favourite “love stories”, ones that challenged, subverted, even obliterated the conventions of the genre. These are stories which put the love story under duress, which stick a needle into the strawberry trifle, which show love in all its freakish, gory detail.”

The season will begin on February 1st with the director’s cut of Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden, his gorgeously stylised adaptation of Sarah Waters’ novel Fingersmith. It’ll be followed by everyone’s favourite automotive love story, Crash, directed by David Cronenberg on Feb 8th. Baz Luhrmann’s classic Romeo + Juliet will be shown on Feb 15th and the season will be rounded out by Sofia Coppola’s under-appreciated The Beguiled on Feb 22nd. The season is an excellent opportunity to not only see these films on screen, but on literally the biggest cinema screen in the UK. Just think of it… mid-90s Leo… fifty foot tall…

More information about the season can be found on the BFI website.