![]() ![]() The result is a stately but frustrating film-with an impressive, equally maddening central performance-that exists as a sort of cinematic Rorschach test. Ambiguity is hard-wired into du Maurier's novel, and the only firm decision Michell seems to have made is to preserve this ambiguity at all costs. Is this strange, limbo-like existence a feature or a bug? I still haven't quite decided. One waits in vain for the story's mysteries to be resolved, and one waits, in equal futility, for the film to decide what it is and commit to a point of view, or even a genre. Read all about this ill-advised plan here.ĭirector Roger Michell's My Cousin Rachel-a new adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's 1951 novel-is a worthy exercise in indecision. ![]() My Cousin Rachel is part of My Summer of Summer Movies, in which I attempt to see and review every single movie that opens (in Chicago) between Memorial Day and Labor Day. ![]()
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