The movie was inspired in the novel Rebecca, of Daphne Du Maurier, 1938, a Bestseller.
“I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.” ― Daphne duMaurier, Rebecca
“I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. All of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.” ― Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca
Everything starts when she goes with the unpleasant Mrs. Van Hoppers to a vacation as her lady company, in Monte Carlo, there she met the most finest man in England, Mr. De Winter, the owner of Manderley, his wife Rebecca died in a boat accident a year before, after a hungover Mrs. Hoppers get ill and she encounters Maxim at the Restaurant. After that they start to see each other and spend a good time together. He quickly decided to marry her and she leaves Mrs. Hoppers to move with him to his property in aManderley.
There she is challenged by his staff, mainly by Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, she gradually gets used to the place and has nightmares at night. She feels excluded and always the housekeeper makes comparations with Rebecca, trying to impose her status quo. Maxim also is getting to know her and act strangely at night, he is a sleepwalker.
As the story unfolds, the new woman decides to please him by holding a ball, but she dresses as the woman on the board, Maxim asks her to take off her dress in front of everyone, embarrassing her publicly. All Mrs. Danvers' idea. She was beautiful, but anyway, she didn't please him. Everybody enjoyed the Ball less the new wife. After the fiasco, Mrs. Danvers tortures her and suggest that she may suicide, but she run to the fields. There she sees the people rescuing a boat, was Rebecca's boat. They took the body to the Autopsy.
Maxim confess to his wife that he killed her with a shot in her heart because she was pregnant of another man called Favell.
Later during the autopsy, they discover that Rebecca was apparently pregnant and they made an investigation to check if was accident or murdering, Maxim goes to trial and they discover that was Maxim the responsible for her death. He goes to jail but his wife manage to take him off.
Mrs. Danvers is fired by the wife after the judgment, but before leaves, she putted fire in the entire mansion, and then she goes to the field to jump to suicide, she had nowhere to go, she lived in that mansion big part of her life. The wife came back from the jail with Maxim and sees it and run after her trying to stop her, but she jumps in the lake anyway.
Finally, after this tragedy, they decided to restart their marriage travelling the world starting with the first city Cairo.
The Cast: Armand Douglas Hammer is an American actor and British actress Lily James.
Rating: 10 stars.
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