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'''''Rebecca''''' is a 2020 British [[romantic thriller]] film directed by [[Ben Wheatley]] from a screenplay by [[Jane Goldman]], Joe Shrapnel, and Anna Waterhouse. Based on the 1938 novel ''[[Rebecca (novel)|Rebecca]]'' by [[Daphne du Maurier]], the film stars [[Lily James]], [[Armie Hammer]], [[Kristin Scott Thomas]], [[Keeley Hawes]], [[Ann Dowd]], and [[Sam Riley]]. The film is about the intrigues that arise after a young woman marries a wealthy widower whose memory of his first wife, Rebecca, died in a mysteriousovershadows boatingthem accidentboth.
 
The film was released in select theatres on 16 October 2020, and digitally on [[Netflix]] five days later. It received mixednegative reviews from critics, who compared the film unfavourably to the [[Rebecca (1940 film)|1940 version]] directed by [[Alfred Hitchcock]].
 
==Plot==
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While working for Mrs. Van Hopper, in [[Monte Carlo]], a young woman becomes acquainted with Maxim de Winter, a recent widower. After a brief courtship, they become engaged. They marry and then head to his mansion in England, [[Manderley]]. She meets [[Mrs. Danvers]], the housekeeper, who was devoted to his first wife, Rebecca, who died in a boating accident. The staff and Maxim's friends also were fond of Rebecca. Mrs. Danvers emphasizes the new Mrs. de Winter's inferiority by comparison. Jack Favell, Rebecca's cousin, comes to visit, saying that Mrs. Danvers invited him. Learning of this infuriates Maxim, who banned Favell from the grounds, and accuses Mrs. de Winter of infidelity, which she denies. She confronts Mrs. Danvers for conspiring against her by inviting Favell, demanding her resignation. Mrs. Danvers insists Favell was lying.
 
Mrs. de Winter meets [[Mrs. Danvers]], the housekeeper, who was devoted to his first wife Rebecca, who died in a boating accident. The staff and Maxim's friends also were fond of Rebecca. Mrs. Danvers emphasizes the new Mrs. de Winter's inferiority in comparison. Jack Favell, Rebecca's cousin, comes to visit, saying that Mrs. Danvers invited him. Learning of this infuriates Maxim, who banned him from the grounds, and accuses Mrs. de Winter of infidelity, which she denies. She confronts Mrs. Danvers for conspiring against her by inviting Favell, demanding her resignation. Mrs. Danvers insists he was lying.
The two begin working amicably together, with Mrs. Danvers assisting Mrs. de Winter in reviving the Manderley Costume Ball. Mrs. Danvers suggests that Mrs. de Winter choose a dress of a de Winter ancestor. When she wears the dress, guests are shocked and Maxim is furious. Mrs. de Winter learns that Rebecca wore the dress the previous year. Realizing that Mrs. Danvers had manipulated her and believing that Maxim now regrets their marriage, she flees. Mrs. Danvers reveals her contempt for the new Mrs. de Winter, believing she is trying to replace Rebecca. She tries to convince Mrs. de Winter to jump to her death from the window. However, she is thwarted by a nearby shipwreck brought from the storm. The ship is Rebecca's and her decomposed body is discovered on board.▼
 
The two begin working amicably together, with Mrs. Danvers assisting Mrs. de Winter in reviving the Manderley Costume Ball. Mrs. Danvers suggests that she choose a dress of a de Winter ancestor. When she wears it, guests are shocked and Maxim is furious. Mrs. de Winter learns that Rebecca wore the dress the previous year.
This reopens the investigation into Rebecca's death. Maxim confesses to his wife that his marriage to Rebecca was a sham and that he always hated her. He states she was cruel, selfish, adulterous, and manipulative. On the night of her death, she told Maxim that she was pregnant with another man's child, which she would raise under the pretense that it was Maxim's. She placed his gun to her chest and stated that the only way to be free of her was to kill her. Enraged, Maxim pulled the trigger, then disposed of her body by placing it in her boat and sinking it. Despite his confession, Mrs. de Winter is relieved to know that Maxim loves her and resolves to support him during the investigation. Favell attempts to blackmail Maxim, claiming to have proof that Rebecca did not intend suicide, in a note she had written.▼
 
▲The two begin working amicably together, with Mrs. Danvers assisting Mrs. de Winter in reviving the Manderley Costume Ball. Mrs. Danvers suggests that Mrs. de Winter choose a dress of a de Winter ancestor. When she wears the dress, guests are shocked and Maxim is furious. Mrs. de Winter learns that Rebecca wore the dress the previous year. Realizing that Mrs. Danvers had manipulated her and believing that Maxim now regrets their marriage, sheMrs. de Winter flees. Mrs. Danvers reveals her contempt for the new Mrs. de Winterwife, believing she is trying to replace Rebecca. She tries to convince Mrs. de Winterher to jump to her death from the window. However, she is thwarted by a nearby shipwreck brought from the storm. The ship is Rebecca's and her decomposed body is discovered on board.
The trial shows Rebecca's boat to have been deliberately sunk. Testimony from Mrs. Danvers implies Rebecca's visit to a London doctor shortly before her death had to do with the pregnancy. The prosecutor produces Maxim's cheque written to Favell for the note, and Favell accuses Maxim of murdering Rebecca. Maxim is placed under arrest. At Manderley, Mrs. Danvers reveals that Rebecca hated all the men in her life. Mrs. de Winter fires Danvers and locates Rebecca's doctor and reads Rebecca's file, which reveals that she could not have been pregnant due to advanced [[uterine cancer]] and would have died within a few months. An investigator concludes Rebecca committed [[suicide]] by scuttling her boat, while Mrs. de Winter privately concludes that Rebecca had wanted Maxim to kill her.▼
 
▲This reopens the investigation into Rebecca's death. Maxim confesses to his wife that his marriage to Rebecca was a sham and that he always hated her. He states she was cruel, selfish, adulterous, and manipulative. On the night of her death, she told Maxim that she was pregnant with another man's child, which she would raise under the pretense that it was Maxim's. She placed his gun to her chest and stated that the only way to be free of her was to kill her. Enraged, Maxim pulled the trigger, then disposed of her body by placing it in her boat and sinking it. Despite his confession, Mrs. de Winter is relieved to know that Maxim loves her and resolves to support him during the investigation. Favell attempts to blackmail Maxim, claiming to have proof that Rebecca did not intend suicide, in a note she had written.
Absolved, Maxim and his new wife drive home to find the mansion ablaze. A maid reveals that Mrs. Danvers started the fire and fled. Mrs. de Winter races to the cliffs, and finds Mrs. Danvers standing on a precipice. She pleads with her not to jump, but the older woman curses the de Winters to never know happiness and jumps into the sea and drowns. Awakening from a dream years later, Mrs. de Winter is with her husband in Cairo, as they search for their dream home. She says that out of the wreck of Manderley she had saved the only thing worth saving - love.▼
 
Though disturbed by his confession, Mrs. de Winter is relieved to know that Maxim loves her and resolves to support him during the investigation. Favell attempts to blackmail Maxim, claiming to have proof that Rebecca did not intend suicide, in a note she had written.
 
The trial shows Rebecca's boat to have been deliberately sunk. Testimony from Mrs. Danvers implies Rebecca's visit to a London doctor shortly before her death had to do with the pregnancy. The prosecutor produces Maxim's cheque written to Favell for the note, and Favell accuses Maxim of murdering Rebecca. Maxim is placed under arrest.
 
▲The trial shows Rebecca's boat to have been deliberately sunk. Testimony from Mrs. Danvers implies Rebecca's visit to a London doctor shortly before her death had to do with the pregnancy. The prosecutor produces Maxim's cheque written to Favell for the note, and Favell accuses Maxim of murdering Rebecca. Maxim is placed under arrest. At Manderley, Mrs. Danvers reveals that Rebecca hated all the men in her life. Mrs. de Winter fires Danvers andher, locates Rebecca's doctor and reads Rebecca'sher file, which reveals that she could not have been pregnant due to advanced [[uterine cancer]] and would have died within a few months. An investigator concludes Rebecca committed [[suicide]] by scuttling her boat, while Mrs. de Winter privately concludes that Rebeccashe had wanted Maxim to kill her.
 
▲Absolved, Maxim and his new wife drive home to find the mansion ablaze. A maid reveals that Mrs. Danvers started the fire and fled. Mrs. de Winter races to the cliffs, and finds Mrs. Danversher standing on a precipice. She pleads with her not to jump, but the older woman curses the de Winters to never know happiness and jumps into the sea and drowns. Awakening from a dream years later, Mrs. de Winter is with her husband in Cairo, as they search for their dream home. She says that out of the wreck of Manderley she had saved the only thing worth saving - love.
 
Awakening from a dream years later, Mrs. de Winter is with her husband in Cairo, as they search for their dream home. She says that out of the wreck of Manderley she had saved the only thing worth saving – love.
 
==Cast==
{{cast listing|
* [[Lily James]] as the second Mrs. de Winter
* [[Armie Hammer]] as Maxim de Winter
* [[Kristin Scott Thomas]] as [[Mrs. Danvers]]
* [[Keeley Hawes]] as Beatrice Lacy
* [[Ann Dowd]] as Mrs. Van Hopper
* [[Pippa Winslow]] as Mrs. Jean Cabot
* [[Sam Riley]] as Jack Favell
* [[Tom Goodman-Hill]] as Frank Crawley
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It was announced in November 2018 that [[Lily James]] and [[Armie Hammer]] were set to star in the film, to be directed by [[Ben Wheatley]], which [[Netflix]] would distribute.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://deadline.com/2018/11/lily-james-armie-hammer-rebecca-movie-director-ben-wheatley-1202502252/ |title=Lily James, Armie Hammer To Star In ''Rebecca'' From Director Ben Wheatley |first=Amanda |last=N'Duka |work=[[Deadline Hollywood]] |date=14 November 2018 |access-date=14 November 2018 |archive-date=15 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181115024656/https://deadline.com/2018/11/lily-james-armie-hammer-rebecca-movie-director-ben-wheatley-1202502252/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In May 2019, [[Kristin Scott Thomas]], [[Keeley Hawes]], [[Ann Dowd]], [[Sam Riley]], and [[Ben Crompton]] joined the cast of the film.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://deadline.com/2019/05/kristin-scott-thomas-lily-james-armie-hammer-rebecca-netflix-1202611162/ |title=Kristin Scott Thomas Joins Lily James, Armie Hammer In ''Rebecca'' |work=[[Deadline Hollywood]] |first=Amanda |last=N’Duka |date=9 May 2019 |access-date=9 May 2019 |archive-date=30 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201230051833/https://deadline.com/2019/05/kristin-scott-thomas-lily-james-armie-hammer-rebecca-netflix-1202611162/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://deadline.com/2019/05/keeley-hawes-ann-dowd-sam-riley-ben-crompton-rebecca-1202624849/ |title=Keeley Hawes, Ann Dowd, Sam Riley & Ben Crompton Join Ben Wheatley's Netflix Feature ''Rebecca'' |first=Peter |last=White |work=[[Deadline Hollywood]] |date=31 May 2019 |access-date=31 May 2019 |archive-date=30 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201230051752/https://deadline.com/2019/05/keeley-hawes-ann-dowd-sam-riley-ben-crompton-rebecca-1202624849/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
Filming began on 3 June 2019.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://hnentertainment.co/overlord-and-free-fire-cinematographer-laurie-rose-expected-to-reunite-with-director-ben-wheatley-for-rebecca/ |title=''Overlord'' and ''Free Fire'' Cinematographer Laurie Rose Expected To Reunite With Director Ben Wheatley For ''Rebecca'' |first=Christopher |last=Marc |work=HN Entertainment |date=27 January 2019 |access-date=7 February 2019 |archive-date=30 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201230051755/https://hnentertainment.co/overlord-and-free-fire-cinematographer-laurie-rose-expected-to-reunite-with-director-ben-wheatley-for-rebecca/ |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Cranborne Manor]] in Dorset<ref>{{citationcite web |last=Zemler |first=Emily needed |date=October2020-10-21 |title=Where Netflix's 'Rebecca' found its Manderley |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2020-10-21/rebecca-netflix-manderley-location |access-date=2022-10-19 |website=Los Angeles Times 2019}}</ref> and [[Hartland Quay]] in [[Devon]] were used for filming in July 2019.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/filming-netflix-blockbuster-rebecca-close-3020128 |title=Filming of Netflix blockbuster ''Rebecca'' will close beauty spot |last=Cooper |first=Joel |date=2019-06-26 |website=Devon Live |access-date=2019-10-22 |archive-date=30 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201230051754/https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/filming-netflix-blockbuster-rebecca-close-3020128 |url-status=live }}</ref> In total, ''Rebecca'' was filmed at six different [[Manor (feudal Europe)house|manors]] or [[Estate (land)|estates]]. Along with Cranborne, [[Hatfield House]] was used for the interior hallways, [[Mapperton]] for Manderley's back garden (which is open for the public sometimes unlike the actual manor), [[Loseley Park]] for Manderley's [[Stairs|staircases]], [[Petworth House]] for one of the corridors full of marble statues and paintings, and lastly [[Osterley Park]] for Manderley's kitchen.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Where Was Rebecca Filmed? Your Guide To Manderley {{!}} Netflix - YouTube|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRnLOHP7BAw|access-date=2020-11-06|website=www.youtube.com| date=29 October 2020 |archive-date=30 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201230051801/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRnLOHP7BAw|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{BetterCite sourceweb needed|date=November 2020-10-27 |title=Inside the great estates cast as Manderley in the new Rebecca |url=https://www.tatler.com/gallery/rebecca-filming-locations-hatfield-mapperton-cranbourne-netflix |access-date=2023-08-30 |website=Tatler |language=en-GB}}</ref> The bedrooms of the former and the new Mrs. De Winter were both sets.<ref>[https://www.artofvfx.com/rebecca-murray-barber-vfx-supervisor-co-founder-milk-visual-effects/ REBECCA: Murray Barber – VFX Supervisor & Co-founder – Milk Visual Effects] by Vincent Frei, 18 November 2020, retrieved 30 January 2022</ref>
 
==Release==
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== Reception ==
{{RTRotten Tomatoes data|prose}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes39|5.com/m/rebecca4|title=231|Ben Wheatley's ''Rebecca'' (2020)|website=[[Rottenremake is Tomatoes]]|publisher=[[Fandangoravishing to behold, but it never quite gets to the heart of the classic source material Media|Fandango]]|access-date={{Rotten- Tomatoesor data|accesstruly datejustifies its own existence.|dfref=dmy}}yes|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201230051812/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/rebecca|archiveaccess-date=3014 DecemberFebruary 2020|url-status=live2023}}</ref> {{MC film|1=<!-- score -->46|2=<!-- reviews -->38|3=mixed or average reviews}}<ref>{{cite web |title=''Rebecca'' (2020) Reviews |url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/rebecca |website=[[Metacritic]] |access-date=24 October 2020 |archive-date=30 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201230051800/https://www.metacritic.com/movie/rebecca |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
Peter Debruge of ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' wrote: "For about three-quarters of the running time, Rebecca does a respectable job of navigating between respect for the source and establishing its own distinct identity. And then, at precisely the moment where it stands to make a few enlightened improvements . . . this Rolls-Royce of an adaptation veers off the road."<ref>{{cite web |last1=DeBruge |first1=Peter |title=‘Rebecca’'Rebecca' Review: Lily James and Armie Hammer Brighten Up a Brooding Classic in Netflix’sNetflix's Overtly Romantic Remake |url=https://variety.com/2020/film/reviews/rebecca-review-1234805533/ |website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |date=Oct 14, 2020}}</ref>

[[Peter Bradshaw]] of ''[[The Guardian]]'' gave the film 2two out of 5five stars and wrote, "You can feel Wheatley... wanting to submit to the full bacchanalian horror of [the dress ball] sequence, and yet the story itself won't let him. This ''Rebecca'' leaves us with a secondary mystery – why precisely Wheatley wanted to do it."<ref name="GuardianReview">{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/oct/15/rebecca-review-ben-wheatley-armie-hammer-lily-james-kristin-scott-thomas |title=''Rebecca'' review – overdressed and underpowered romantic thriller |first=Peter |last=Bradshaw |author-link=Peter Bradshaw |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=15 October 2020 |access-date=17 October 2020 }}</ref>

Constance Grady from ''[[Vox (website)|Vox]]'' gave the film 2two out of 5five stars and went even further, "Ben Wheatley has no business making a [[gothic horror|gothic romantic horror]] movie if he is not interested in gothic romantic horror, and on the evidence of this film, he is not." She concludes, "Wheatley’s ''Rebecca'' is a horror film that is resolutely sure there is nothing horrifying going on here at all, actually."<ref name="Grady Vox">{{cite news |url=https://www.vox.com/culture/21525431/rebecca-review-netflix |title=The exhausting failure of Netflix's ''Rebecca'' |first=Constance |last=Grady |work=[[Vox (website)|Vox]] |date=21 October 2020 |access-date=24 October 2020 |archive-date=30 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201230051800/https://www.vox.com/culture/21525431/rebecca-review-netflix |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
==See also==
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* [[Rebecca (1979 TV series)|''Rebecca'' (1979 TV series)]]
* [[Rebecca (1997 TV series)|''Rebecca'' (1997 miniseries)]], British-German miniseries adaptation of the novel directed by [[Jim O'Brien (director)|Jim O'Brien]]
* [[Rebecca (musical)|''Rebecca'' (2006 musical)]]
 
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