How To Exit Your Body by Christopher Maxim

In the boat is the body of Rebecca – even though Maxim had previously identified another corpse as her first wife and buried her – and it looks like the boat has been tampered with. But a nearby shipwreck changes everything.

De Winter is naive, innocent and guileless – or at least at first she is – and after the catastrophic ball is almost goaded into suicide by Danvers. De Winter learns, was vibrant, radiant and adored by all – she can’t possibly compete and every time she tries to do something nice for Maxim – like reviving the annual ball Rebecca used to hold – something goes wrong, usually orchestrated by Mrs. De Winter (we never discover her own name) to his stately mansion, Manderley, where they meet Mrs Danvers (Kristin Scott Thomas) the steely housekeeper who idolised Maxim’s first wife Rebecca. You’ll remember that Rebecca is the story of a young woman (Lily James) working as a lady’s companion, who meets handsome and affluent widower Maxim De Winter (Armie Hammer) and quickly becomes his second wife. As we point out in our review though, it works, and in part because Wheatley has hewn closer to the book in some respects but also added modern themes and sensibilities – particularly towards the end. Selznick and starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine – a film that would win the Oscar for Best Picture – makes it a particularly bold move. Taking on a new adaptation of a classic novel is daunting enough, but factoring in that the story was previously translated to the screen by Alfred Hitchcock, produced by David O.

This article contains Netflix’s Rebecca spoilers.

How To Exit Your Body by Christopher Maxim