With Scott Thomas’ subtle gaze, she’s equal parts malice and hurt, her ill-intent driven by obsession but also pain. I didn't feel it, it 100% felt like a 2020 film. Armie Hammer Classically trained British actress Lily James, known for roles in Cinderella and Baby Driver, stars with Armie Hammer in the drama Rebecca. “We can never go back again, that much is certain. The novel starts as a dream with the famous opening line: "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again." Picture: Kerry Brown/NetflixSource:Supplied. When Enola Holmes-Sherlock's teen sister-discovers her mother missing, she sets off to find her, becoming a super-sleuth in her own right as she outwits her famous brother and unravels a dangerous conspiracy around a mysterious young Lord. That's the essence of Daphne Du Maurier's book, a book which has never gone out of print, speaking to its cross-generational appeal.The past lives around us. Choose an adventure below and discover your next favorite movie or TV show. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. What year was Daphne du Maurier's novel, Rebecca, published? A NOTE ABOUT RELEVANT ADVERTISING: We collect information about the content (including ads) you use across this site and use it to make both advertising and content more relevant to you on our network and other sites. SAS Australia: Candice Warner’s gripe with toilet tryst mome... George Clooney’s massive cash gift to 14 closest friends. Hitchcock’s Rebecca won the 1940 Best Picture Oscar while Olivier and Fontaine were nominated for their roles – the screen legends didn’t win but would go on to collect Oscars down the track for other performances. A courtship begins in the beautiful climes of Monte Carlo, two sun-kissed humans making sexy googly-eyes while hugging the Mediterranean coastline. The second Kristin Scott Thomas, as Mrs. Danvers, her eyes as cold and dark as black ice, slithers across the room to meet the new lady of the house, she establishes the proper style for this feverish material. Naive and inexperienced, she begins to settle into the trappings of her new life, but finds herself battling the shadow of Maxim's first wife, the elegant and urbane Rebecca, whose haunting legacy is kept alive by Manderley's sinister housekeeper Mrs. Danvers (Kristin Scott Thomas). Everyone she meets, including Rebecca's cousin (Sam Riley), who has been banned from the house for mysterious reasons, is still haunted by her memory. Lily James as Mrs de Winter. Is Rebecca there in the bed with the newlyweds, laughing at the clumsy inexperience of Maxim's new bride? Rebecca Even a scene where the new Mrs. de Winter finds Rebecca's catalog of sexy lingerie hidden in a drawer is not enough to establish the nightmarish quality of that arc. There’s also not enough of an age gap between Hammer and James (only three years as opposed to the book’s 20-plus and Olivier and Fontaine’s 10) for the complex dynamic of that uneven relationship. Read her answers to our Movie Love Questionnaire here. Rebecca - Un film di Ben Wheatley. So, the person who decides to remake it with that kind of legacy hanging around their neck is either gutsy or foolish – of course, those two concepts are not mutually exclusive. Find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out. Releasing on Netflix this week, Wheatley’s Rebecca is a stylish but flawed attempt at capturing the emotional and psychological nuance of du Maurier’s book. Lily James brings a refreshing straightforwardness to the role in the second half, as the character takes the reins of the situation, but has a difficult time convincing us in the first half that she is susceptible, cowed, in thrall. Looking for something to watch? Swept away by this dazzling mysterious man, the naive young woman goes back with him to the family manor, a Gothic monstrosity called "Manderley." It had no point of view. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. (I have loved his work before, particular his scores for "Moon" and "Black Swan," so this misstep is an anomaly.) I literally cared more about Clarice the maid than the lead characters. They stuck Mrs de Winter in like dumpy hats and cardigans that you could go and pick up from H & M. I don't understand this choice. Rebecca never succeeds in making the argument that we should forgive Maxim after the story’s climactic revelation – and it certainly doesn’t establish why Mrs de Winter would. Along with cinematographer Laurie Rose, Rebecca is certainly a visually handsome movie, deploying that dramatic English coastline to great effect while swinging between Hitchcockian wide shots and striking close-ups with slashes of light across James’ high-cheekboned face. Her face is powdered white, and her lipstick makes of her mouth a dark slash. It’s easy to forget the seductive, sexual charmer of those Monte Carlo scenes. The book's reach is global. Which possibly makes the sinister Mrs Danvers the real hero of the story? Scott Thomas does a brilliant job in a role that was played with memorable stoicism by Australian actor Judith Anderson in the Hitchcock version. View production, box office, & company info. But Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Phantom of the Opera, Coleridge's "Christable": all qualify. It’s not just that Daphne du Maurier’s novel is revered (and it is), but it’s that two years after the book’s 1938 release, Alfred Hitchcock made it for cinemas with Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine in the leads. But still, when Thomas arrives she makes the Monte Carlo sequence seem a prologue. Hammer and James are too-well matched, which was not the point. You can easily imagine another, more successful movie told from Mrs Danvers’ perspective. I don't understand why you would attempt to remake a film who's shoes are just too big to fill.First off the film looks great especially the scenes in France and the story is good but that is the source materials fault not anyone involved with this film.I thought it was pretty bland apart from the points above. Rebecca has been adapted for film (and radio, and theatre) countless times, the most famous one, of course, being Alfred Hitchcock's 1940 version, starring Laurence Olivier as Maxim, Joan Fontaine as Mrs. De Winter, and Judith Anderson as Mrs. Danvers (the housekeeper who remains loyal to the dead Rebecca).
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