Rebecca

Ce qui importe avant tout c'est le plaisir d'une belle et élégante mise en scène du Hollywood des débuts avec des décors somptueux et des acteurs excellemment choisis et stylisés, davantage que l'histoire. Celle-ci ne parvient plus à captiver comme à l'époque de sa création et elle ne soulève le voile de l'enthousiasme du public qu'avec la révélation finale de la vérité. De plus, l'angoisse ressentie par l'héroïne est davantage perçue par le public féminin que masculin. Pour moi, Rebecca c'est avant tout le charisme de star de Laurence Olivier, le design et l'atmosphère sombre du domaine de Manderley et la silhouette noire de la mystérieuse gouvernante dans les intérieurs aux longs rideaux. C'est-à-dire des éléments que Hitchcock a ultérieurement utilisés dans des œuvres plus marquantes et plus importantes selon moi. [Noir Film Fest] (26/08/2019)

Rebecca is the first Hitchcock film I’ve ever seen. I am impressed with the director's genius because his use of light and music is amazing. Moreover, he manages the atmosphere perfectly (of course, this is not uncommon with Hitchcock, as I had already read somewhere). Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine are great cast members and give great performances. Anyway, I'm certainly going to start looking for more of his masterpieces very soon. The Birds and Vertigo are on my list. :) (30/07/2006)

For a while I felt that Rebecca was being drawn out a little more than it needed to, but after the final half hour I found out that I actually don't know what I would cut from Rebecca, what I'd throw out... and mainly, why the hell would I do it? It's an engaging, mystery-saturated and astonishingly-looking story, in which you recognize Hitchcock in the opening dream (and confirm your presumption in the following clifftop scene), and you won't get rid of him until the end. Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine act perfectly, the atmosphere is beautifully unpredictable, and it all looks amazing - that arrival at Manderley in heavy rain, the view through the wiped front window of the automobile... So beautiful. (14/10/2020)

In Hitchcock's Rebecca, the similarity of Du Maurier's novel to Brontë's seminal work "Jane Eyre" stands out. It's no coincidence that Joan Fontaine plays the lead roles in both of these Hollywood gothic novels shortly after each other. Unfortunately, neither she nor Olivier in Rebecca transcended the mannerisms of the time. The 90's series was also weak, but in some aspects, its dramatization was much more interesting than the script of the Hollywood all-star team. However, I'll try to give it another chance, for a change on Netflix. (08/10/2021)