With its vibrant, modern-feeling costumes, a new take on Daphne du Maurier’s 'Rebecca' reimagines the story in glorious color. Take a look inside the stylish adaptation here:
—Daphne du Maurier’s haunting 1938 novel—when, dressed for a costume ball at Manderley, her husband’s stately ancestral home, the second Mrs. de Winter peers at herself in the mirror. In both the book and Alfred Hitchcock’s noirish 1940 adaptation, her dress, copied from a painting in the house, is a white, flouncy thing finished with puffed sleeves, a sash, and a “wide floppy hat.
Starring Lily James, Armie Hammer, and Kristin Scott Thomas as Mrs. Danvers, Manderley’s redoubtable housekeeper, the film, which premieres this month on Netflix, offers a stylish update on du Maurier’s text that begins with the clothes—all 1930s-appropriate pieces that don’t actuallyso 1930s-appropriate. “We didn’t want the period to be the main focus,” says James. “Actually, I sort of forgot it was period.”James’s Mrs.
“We learn from the novel that she was Rebecca’s nanny and was by her side through her teenage years, through her marriage,” Scott Thomas says. “So that affection or obsession or love or whatever you call it that she has for Rebecca is extremely deeply rooted. It’s passionate; it’s possessive.” To tell that story visually, Day landed on a wonderfully effective metaphor. “Once Rebecca had passed away, Mrs. Danvers was like a bruised person,” he says.
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