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      • ...a delicious romantic melodrama ruthlessly dissecting the fragility of the male ego that's remembered less for its own merit than the notedness of its cast and crew.
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  2. Jun 9, 2017 · "My Cousin Rachel" is finally a hybrid. It uses clunky devices out of 19th century melodrama to modern ends to show mistakes of perception. Whether the woman of the title is good or evil, the...

  3. Jun 9, 2017 · But My Cousin Rachel is a fascinating hybrid. It uses clunky devices out of a 19th-century melodrama, but its subject is modern: mistakes of perception and of metaphor.

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  4. Aug 26, 2017 · Following Du Maurier’s lead, Michell keeps the audience and most of the characters guessing until the end, while spinning the kind of lush, throwback melodrama that fans of Old Hollywood movies...

  5. Henry Koster's atmospheric direction is excellent for his moody period drama My Cousin Rachel (1952). Koster knows how to pull performances out of people that are effective.

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    • Olivia de Havilland
    • Henry Koster
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  6. Philip is a young Englishman who finds his cousin Ambrose dead after traveling to Florence, Italy. He vows revenge against Ambrose's missing wife Rachel, blaming her for his untimely demise.

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    • Roger Michell
    • PG-13
    • Rachel Weisz
  7. ‘My Cousin Rachel’ opens with a narration from Philip asking the question “did she, or didn’t she?”, setting the tone and the intent for the entire film right off the bat—a British costume drama which mercifully avoids too much melodrama, suggestive but subtle, poking and prodding the audience without ever giving too much away, and ...

  8. Jun 9, 2017 · “My Cousin Rachel” gives him a chance to sink his teeth into a juicy romantic melodrama.

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