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Tuesday Nov 10, 2020
Rebecca vs Rebecca (1940 vs 2020)
Tuesday Nov 10, 2020
Tuesday Nov 10, 2020
One of the most exciting and talented new British directors of the last decade, Ben Wheatley, was either an inspired or bizarre choice to take on Alfred Hitchcock's celebrated only Best Picture Oscar winner. Here both visions of the 1938 Daphne du Maurier novel go head to head and it ain't pretty. After scratching my head as to why he even did it, musing that Netflix were solely appealing to the Downton Abbey/Fifty Shades of Grey country house set, I find a whole new appreciation for the modern concerns of the original - domestic violence, psychological abuse, emotional trauma, toxic relationships and gas-lighting - all of which Wheatley's bland, rote film seem oblivious to.
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