Title – Rebecca (2020) Director – Ben Wheatley (Free Fire) Cast – Armie Hammer, Lily James, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ann Dowd, Sam Riley Plot – The naïve and newly minted Mrs. de Winter (James) finds her marriage to the rich Maxim (Hammer) haunted by the death of his past wife and the ever present eye of […]
Film Review – Rebecca (2020)
‘Rebecca’ is of the “female gothic” genre, works that derive their terror from women’s domestic entrapment and manipulation, as in the Bluebeard folktale. – Jessica Gildersleeve, The Conversation. More:
‘Rebecca’: Gender, Gothic Haunting and Gaslighting
Image Courtesy of Wikipedia This was a remake of the 1940 Alfred Hitchcock classic of the same name. The original movie was the movie adaptation of the English paranormal novel by Daphne Du Maurier. SummaryA lady’s companion met and fell in love with a handsome aristocrat, Maxim de Winter. His wife, Rebecca, had passed away […]
Netflix Movie: Rebecca
There are quite a few offerings coming to Netflix in October that I’m excited about including: The Haunting of Bly Manor, Cadaver, The Trial of the Chicago 7, The Queen’s Gambit, and MANK. But at the top of my list is their adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, which is one of my favorite classic […]
Netflix’s Rebecca Trailer
