![]() ![]() The cause is a tumor, although Philip believes the real culprit may be a woman he doesn’t know: Ambrose’s British-Italian wife, Rachel (Rachel Weisz).Ī young man, a strange woman and an unsettled death that may be a murder - “My Cousin Rachel” vibrates with possibility. By the time the story gets going, Philip is nearing 25 and in mourning after learning that Ambrose has died abroad. All that natural beauty does its part to draw you in, as do the tight introductions, which Philip narrates with concision over radiant images from his formative years. Claflin), on a swath of land stretching to the coast, a rough and wild paradise, with thundering horses, heaving waves and jagged cliffs, that cries out for death and dark poetry.Īt least these bluffs should cry, given the emotional terrain that the director, Roger Michell, stakes out early with one lovely landscape shot after another, the airborne camera sailing over the luxuriant, seemingly endless green. Orphaned as a child, he has been ushered into a wholly male realm by his guardian, Ambrose (also Mr. Set in the 1830s, it is the story of Philip Ashley (Sam Claflin), a callow, moist-eyed British gentleman farmer who - as he explains in voice-over - has been raised without women. ![]() “My Cousin Rachel” is good enough to make you wish it were better. ![]()
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