Review: Rachel Weisz Has Her Way With Classic Melodrama
Weisz superbly captures the frustration of a woman who shows tenderness to a young man and then has to live with the frustrated realization that she’s fallen for a boy.
Director Roger Michell has been quoted as saying of the novel that its creator, Daphne du Maurier, “lights her scenes like Caravaggio and writes them like Hitchcock.” So how to account for his film version, one without menace or shadows or the voluptuous morbidity that’s the hallmark of gothic melodrama? It’s true that du Maurier’s novel—which the English author of and published in 1951—has its sluggish patches. But it also has a
