Title: Rebecca

Date: 2020
Type: Drama / Suspense / Romance
Rating: 3/5
Colour: Yes
Director: Ben Wheatley
Producer:

Comment
The companion (Lily James) to a wealthy woman meets, quickly falls in love with and marries a recently widowed man (Armie Hammer) whilst they are in Monte Carlo. When they retiurn back to his stately home in England she finds it full of dark overtones of his late wife and the disturbing presence of the house keeper (Kristen Scott Thomas). This version of the novel has more emphasis on the romance rather than the more gothic suspense aspects of the story. THis means Lily James character does not fell the full fear and forboding, though Kristen Scott Thomas is suitably sinister as the manipulative house keeper. THis version is fine, but the 1940 Alfred Hitchcock version with Joan Fontaine is better.
Actors
Lily James
Armie Hammer
Kristin Scott Thomas
Ann Dowd
Keeley Hawes
Jane Lapotaire
David Horovitch
Lucy Russell
Pippa Winslow
Jeff Rawle
Bryony Miller
John Hollingsworth
Oscars
None
Novel
Written by Daphne du Maurier