The newest adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 novel Rebecca, which arrives on Netflix on Wednesday, follows the book’s unnamed female narrator—identified in the movie credits only as Mrs. de Winter, her married name—as she meets and weds a wealthy widower in Monte Carlo. Maxim de Winter In the film, the male romantic lead is played by Armie Hammer, who’s …
To read Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca is to succumb to a series of moods. Ben Wheatley’s new film adaptation of du Maurier’s novel is a bit of a second Mrs. de Winter. There, the second Mrs. de Winter quickly becomes obsessed with the first Mrs. de Winter, the Rebecca of the novel’s title. Like du Maurier’s narrator, Wheatley’s film also …
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 …
