Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again…again.
Daphne du Maurier’s Gothic novel “Rebecca” has only been adapted for the screen a small handful of times since it was first published in 1938 — most famously by Alfred Hitchcock for his 1940 Best Picture winner of the same name — but the shadow cast by its haunted tale of wealth and obsession has grown long enough to spark a feeling of déjà vu whenever someone films another melodrama in a musty English manor, let alone dares to exhume Rebecca herself.Needless to say, revisiting Manderley is tempting and dangerous in equal measure.
On the one hand, there’s something accessibly timeless to du Maurier’s rather simple interwar story about a rich widower named Maxim de Winter, the guileless new bride he plucks out of the precariat, and the sprawling Cornwall estate he invites her to share with him and the
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