Watched the new #RebeccaNetflix adaptation - it is one of my favourite novels. Love this version - nice to see Mrs Danvers pretty much as I always imagined her. She is not an old lady and relic of the Victorian era here, she is probably 8-10 years older than Rebecca was and is >

< dressed fairly ahead of her time for the 1935, looking more 1940s and v fashionable: she is an independent [probably gay] thinking in a very modern way, based on how she is dressed. Makes more sense this way, she is a sensual, beautiful woman (cf. her nightwear) that Rebecca >

< would easily have fallen for. #KristinScottThomas absolutely shines in the rôle and has added so many layers to Mrs Danvers that I’ve never seen before. #LilyJames is fantastic esp. at the start and #AnnDowd manages to avoid Mrs van Hopper becoming cartoonish and does give >

< a 1930s-style mid-Atlantic accent rather than a coarse New York one. The scenes in Monte Carlo and on Cornish beaches are beautiful, as is Manderley, with a Hall just as I imagined. On the whole, it’s a faithful adaptation but pulls so much more out of the text than previous >

< versions I have seen, without changing the plot at any point other than making The New Mrs de Winter more centrally a heroine of the piece #bencrompton plays Ben sensitively and quite differently to the very lost, frightened young boy I imagined when reading it. #Rebeccamovie