Directed by Ben Wheatley, Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 gothic novel Rebecca comes alive as the mesmerizing and gorgeously rendered psychological thriller. But, this time, the classic story streams on Netflix.
After a whirlwind romance in Monte Carlo with handsome widower Maxim de Winter, played by Armie Hammer, a newly married young woman, played by Lily Jame, arrives at Manderley.
Her new husband’s imposing family estate on a windswept English coast. Naive and inexperienced, she begins to settle into the trappings of her new life but finds herself battling the shadow of Maxim’s first wife, the elegant and urbane Rebecca, whose haunting legacy is kept alive by Manderley’s sinister housekeeper Mrs. Danvers, played by Kristin Scott Thomas.
The mesmerizing and gorgeously rendered psychological thriller based on Daphne du Maurier’s beloved 1938 gothic novel.