Language: English “If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. Just like the memory of Rebecca haunts the new Mrs de Winter, the legacy of the Alfred Hitchcock classic haunts the new adaptation. Just as Mrs Danvers undermines the new Mrs de Winter, the critics among us will judge Wheatley’s take to be far …
Rebecca review: ‘A pallid adaptation’ Kerry Brown / Netflix The latest adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca is “bland”, argues Caryn James, who writes that this film “feels as if someone at Downton Abbey were having a bad day”. The second Mrs de Winter becomes the ill-prepared mistress of Maxim’s great estate of Manderley, where her timidity is no match …
When Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca hit cinemas in the US on 12 April 1940, large sections of the audience were already familiar with its source material. Rebecca’s spectre haunts Manderley and everyone in it, from Maxim to the housekeeper Mrs Danvers. Mrs Danvers even leads a game of manipulation to make the new Mrs de Winter feel like an intruder in …
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