Topic: | Re:Re:St Maud | |
Posted by: | Joe Conneely | |
Date/Time: | 22/10/20 11:20:00 |
Now available to watch on Netflix, this is a film by UK director Ben Wheatley, whose list of movies including “Kill List”; A Field in England”, & Free Fire have all been for me quirky and violent but shown him to be a very interesting director to follow. This is an adaptation of the Daphne du Maurier book (Wheatley seems at pains in interviews to point out it is not a remake of the well known Hitchcock film many of us will have probably seen many times on TV) and is very different from anything Wheatley has done before with its romantic tone and no on screen killings. Set in the late 1930s it looks and feels with its beautiful romantic leads (Armie Hammer from “Free Fire”” and Lily James) very much like a 30s/40s Hollywood film though shot in beautiful colour rather than black and white by Laurie Rose, Wheatley’s long serving DoP. Where it seems to differ with the Hitchcock film from what I remember of it, is with a script by Jane Goldman it enlarges the Mrs Danvers role (Kristin Scott Thomas as always on top form) and hits more at the social levels in society then and the ambiguous interests of the main characters. One of those films which without giving anything away, at the end or afterwards you realise has played more with your understanding of what happened than you realised. |
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