Arnold's "Wuthering Heights" takes over Venice

It's good to hear that Andrea Arnold's "Wuthering Heights" is being described as an "extreme, forbidding" film. InContention's Guy Lodge supplies that enticing description in his brief, 140-character-less B+ instant reaction from the Venice Film Festival, where the film bowed today to (it would seem) across-the-board raves. 
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The twitter world is certainly buzzing after the "Fish Tank" director unveiled her literary adaptation, which is said to have more teeth and less sop than you would expect, but such is the norm this side of Cary Fukunaga's dark, misty "Jane Eyre". 
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Here are few of the tweets making the rounds after the film dropped in the morning:
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"Stunning. A visceral, revelatory reinvention, and my favourite of the festival so far." - Oliver Lyttelton, The Playlist. 
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"Finally something challenging for us formalist critics - Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights adaptation is a masterfully composed film." - Patrick Wellinski
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"Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights is a towering masterpiece only tarnished by the use of a song in the final minutes. Amazing." - John Barrenechea, Splendor Cinema