It’s more that the filmmakers seem curiously at sea over the purpose of their assignment, possessing neither the patience to plunge headlong into the story’s familiar depths nor the radicalism to reinvent it entirely. A young newlywed arrives at her husband's imposing family estate on a windswept English coast and finds herself battling the shadow of his first wife, Rebecca, whose legacy lives on in the house long after her death. Rebecca is one of a number of high profile potential awards contenders hitting Netflix this year, including but not limited to The Devil All the Time, Mank, and The Trial of the Chicago 7. Less convincing is her character’s transformation later in the movie, but more problematic by far is the decision to race through the story’s court sequence and the inquisition into Rebecca’s death. Few literary and screen successes on that order call it a day after one adaptation. Their guiding instinct seems to have been to drench the proceedings in as much youthful Hollywood glamour as they can withstand, which more or less explains the casting of Armie Hammer as the GQ-iest Maxim de Winter ever to grace the screen. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (updated 1/1/20) and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement (updated 1/1/20) and Your California Privacy Rights.

Comments. Sections, Despite solid casting and some strong sequences, Ben Wheatley’s gloomy adaptation isn’t a patch on the classic, Armie Hammer and Lily James in the remake of Rebecca. Future US, Inc. 11 West 42nd Street, 15th Floor, She lives on in every piece of boldly “R”-monogrammed fabric and stationery, and also in the cove not far from where her sailboat ran tragically aground. Hitchcock, then, was not a well man, but knew very well just how good a film Rebecca was: it made his name in Hollywood, and he may not have liked owing part of his success to a woman, Daphne Du Maurier, the original novel’s author. Not unlike “Jane Eyre,” its partner in oft-adapted Gothic romance, “Rebecca” is durable enough to withstand and even reward multiple interpretations.
The trailer moves from sun-drenched Monte Carlo to the gothic horror-trappings of de Winter’s home, Manderlay, where housekeeper Mrs. Danvers (Kristin Scott Thomas) skulks in the shadows and makes thinly veiled threats to the new Mrs. Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again, and all you got was this lousy Netflix remake. In this case, the ingénue in question is Lily James, starring in Netflix’s new adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca as the second Mrs. de Winter.

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As anyone who’s watched a ‘real’ Hitchcock picture will have gathered, the great man was a misogynist and worse, simultaneously fascinated and repelled by women: in his work, he constantly attacked them, physically and mentally, as if doing so would break their terrible grip on him.

Wheatley’s strongest sequence is probably the costume ball where Mrs. de Winter, striving for Maxim’s approval, winds up snatching defeat from the jaws of victory — a moment that plays to the director’s gifts for staging bacchanalian chaos, and also to the strengths of his costume designer, Julian Day. in her eyes, goading the second Mrs. de Winter. Ad Choices.

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Ben Wheatley’s handsome, risk-taking Rebecca remake finds a heady romance in Du Maurier’s chiller classic, but sacrifices suspense for sweeping sadness.

The second Mrs. de Winter learns this the hard way: Her whirlwind romance and fairy-tale marriage are soon overshadowed by the memory of her husband’s late first wife, Rebecca, a formidable rival who, like many ghosts, is not entirely what she appears to be. Opens: Oct. 16 at the Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport Ave.; Oct. 21 streaming premiere on Netflix.

His first wife, the dead, but ever-present, Rebecca, had expired in mysterious circumstances, and Danvers is ill-disposed towards her successor. New York, Who wouldn’t dream of going to Manderley again? She also tries to lay bare the character’s very human torment, as becomes apparent in one fascinating if narratively misguided confrontation with James’ freshly emboldened Mrs. de Winter: Sitting on her own bed in a translucent nightgown, Scott Thomas gives seductive shape to the repressed lesbian desires that Hitchcock and Anderson could only hint at under the strictures of the Hays Code. Five years after Donat modeled that overcoat, Hitchcock’s first Hollywood project won the Best Picture Oscar: “Rebecca.” It had everything.

6 Takeaways From the Erratic 2020 Tony Award Nominations. A tray of oysters, a few scenic coastal drives and some gauzily shot beachfront sex later, Maxim is whisking his new bride off to his coastal manor, where the malevolent specter of Rebecca swiftly asserts herself.

“I wanted to make something that had more love in it,” Wheatley said about his decision to tackle Rebecca despite the contradictory material previously on his resume.

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But the drama fails to spark. It’s set for release on October 21. One of the lessons of Daphne du Maurier’s “Rebecca” is that we should be wary of impostor syndrome, specifically the impulse to compare ourselves too anxiously with a beloved predecessor. The Hitchcock film, peerlessly acted by Joan Fontaine, Laurence Olivier and Judith Anderson, is widely considered definitive, but it has never struck me as sacrosanct.

The director’s background Is in horror and he legitimately emphasises the guignol aspects of Du Maurier’s story from the get-go.

But old films are hardly ever shown on TV anymore, so it’s likely that at least half the viewers who tune in to watch this remake on Netflix won’t have ever seen the original. (The production design is by Sarah Greenwood, the cinematography by Laurie Rose.) Speaking of Fontaine, it is really too bad that her sister, Olivia de Havilland, has passed, because she’d probably have something good to say, or sue, about all this. A Complete Timeline of Cardi B and Offset’s Complicated Relationship, “I see that it’s loading and I’m like, ‘Oh my God! Rebecca is an upcoming British romantic thriller film directed by Ben Wheatley from a screenplay by Jane Goldman, Joe Shrapnel, and Anna Waterhouse. The film is based on the 1938 novel of the same name by Daphne du Maurier and stars Lily James, Armie Hammer, Kristin Scott Thomas, Tom Goodman-Hill, Keeley Hawes, Sam Riley, and Ann Dowd. Oh my God, Offset!’”, Free Your Mind (to Think About En Vogue’s Billboard Music Awards Performance). ‘Honest Thief’ review: Liam Neeson, with heart. If this “Rebecca” has a consistent failing, it’s that in trying to bring the drama’s underlying passions to the surface, it tears back the veil far too quickly. ‘Becoming Mrs. Lewis’ explores the turbulent life of the woman C. S. Lewis called ‘my whole world’, Patti Callahan Henry’s first historical novel explores Joy Davidman’s life, bringing to light her struggles and triumphs, her literary works and relationship with the renowned C.S. The many dangers of our sad little lives are weaponized by this horror franchise.