I’m leery of giving more details lest I give away the plot twist. However, when it comes to family viewing, there are mixed messages that parents might not want to share with their teens. Rebecca is a lot of fun to watch – although I must admit to loving the novel, which doubtless biases me in the movie’s favor. Armie Hammer broods and is suitably haunted but the women really own the movie. Lily James shines as the eager-to-please, somewhat gauche, young bride and Kristin Scott Thomas is icily contemptuous as the malevolent housekeeper, Mrs. Since this is such a richly atmospheric production, it’s fortunate the cast are up to the challenge.
Forget blood spatters and creepy music - in this story, the horror comes from the characters’ minds and hearts from the dark wells of memory. He’s managed to bring all three to life but is thankfully light on traditional horror elements. The answer is that director Ben Wheatley has pulled it off, creating a movie he compares to a Russian doll, with a “horror film that lives inside a thriller that lives inside a romance”. The question for any movie critic is how well this film manages to portray both parts of the story. This is a tale with two facets – the new wife’s internal struggles with her crippling sense of inferiority and the central intrigue of the novel, complete with a startling plot twist.
Never named in the novel or the film, she struggles to establish her own identity and assume the role so triumphantly inhabited by her predecessor. No one is more surprised than his new bride.īased on the novel by Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca is the story of the second Mrs. de Winter marries again, this time to a very young woman (Lily James) who’s been working as a paid companion for a social climbing American (Ann Dowd) in the south of France. His late wife, Rebecca, put Manderley on the social map, with her dazzling beauty and stylish parties. Maxim de Winter (Armie Hammer) is a dashing widower, who happens to be the owner of Manderley, one of England’s most coveted estates.
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