1940 · thriller · romance · drama
Rebecca
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock2h 10m1940
Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, Max De Winter. She must also deal with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, who will not accept her as the mistress of the house.
Our read: Rebecca (1940) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded thriller · romance · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured thriller / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
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