Rebecca

Review Of Rebecca: A Dazzling Showcase Of Literary Populism

Rebecca(Netflix) Starring Lily James, Armie Hammer Rating: *** ½ Call me a sucker for good looking adaptations, but I preferred Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Devdas to Bimal Roy’s adaptation of the literary classic by Sarachandra Chatterjee. Why? Because Bimal Roy was slavishly faithful to the source material. Bhansali took wild operatic liberties and emerged with a work that blended the epic and the operatic. This bright shiny new adaptation of Rebecca follows none of the rules of Daphne de Maurier’s original the way Alfred Hitchcock did in his 1940 a | Click Here...