![]() Ambrose runs some kind of land-based business-he has a lot of workers walking around wielding scythes. He cops to not liking much of anything, besides hanging out with Ambrose in a dusty manse whose interior looks like the gatefold sleeve picture of a mid-70s Jethro Tull album. Orphaned, brought up by an adult cousin named Ambrose, sent to school. ![]() His name is Philip, and after wondering who’s to blame, he gives a brief accounting of his life. This movie begins with a few noncommittal scenic shots of rural England and a man saying in voiceover, “Did she? Didn’t she? Who’s to blame?” Hearing this, I thought, “Well, that’s no ‘Last night I dreamt I went to Manderlay again.’” Not fair, maybe, but “My Cousin Rachel” is, like Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rebecca,” based on a novel by Daphne du Maurier, master of the moody semi-Gothic romantic thriller.Īs it happens, du Maurier’s novel “My Cousin Rachel” has an entirely different and hookier opening line: “They used to hang men at Four Turnings in the old days.” One feature of this movie, written and directed by Roger Michell, is-I’m assuming here-a new conception of its protagonist, the novel’s unreliable narrator. ![]()
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