//Rebecca Quickly Subsides into the Dullest Parts of Its Source Material

Rebecca Quickly Subsides into the Dullest Parts of Its Source Material

The best and sexiest sex anyone has in Ben Wheatley’s adaptation of Rebecca, the 1938 Daphne du Maurier tome adapted into a stone-cold cinematic masterpiece by Alfred Hitchcock in 1940, is on a Monte Carlo beach under 20 minutes into the film. The story’s nameless protagonist (Lily James) lies face-down