UK, United States, 2017, 106’, color, DCP
screenplay
Roger Michell
basedon the novel by
Daphne du Maurier
cinematography
Mike Eley
editing
Kristina Hetherington
music
Rael Jones
sound
Paul Carter
production design
Alice Normington
costumues
Dinah Collin
cast
Rachel Weisz [Rachel Ashley]
Sam Claflin [Philip]
Holliday Grainger [Louise]
Iain Glen [Kendall]
Pierfrancesco Favino [Enrico Rainaldi]
producer
Kevin Loader
Anita Overland
executive producer
Roger Michell
productions
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Free Range Films
A young Englishman plots revenge against his late cousin's mysterious, beautiful wife, believing her responsible for his death. But his feelings become complicated as he finds himself falling under the beguiling spell of her charms.
"It is a roller coaster of did-she-or-didn’t-she and I think that’s very exciting. I think that's one part of it and I think it’s also without doubt it is a love story whether you like it or not. It is a desperate love story and a love story that goes wrong and still beguiling as a love story. It is also a beautiful mystery and I think people leaving the theatre will be arguing with each other about who did what. People going to have a drink after the movie with ‘come on she did it’ and someone else saying ‘come on she didn’t do it’" [Roger Michell]
After graduating from Cambridge in 1977, Roger Michell (Sudafrica, 1957) moved to London and began an apprenticeship at the Royal Court Theatre and worked as assistant director to noted British playwright John Osborne and Irish playwright Samuel Beckett. During this period, he also worked with stage manager Danny Boyle, who would also go on to a successful directing career. In 1993, he directed the acclaimed BBC miniseries adaptation of Hanif Kureishi's autobiographical novel The Buddha of Suburbia. He followed that with the BBC film Persuasion in 1995. After it won the 1995 BAFTA for Best Single Drama, the film was released in theatres in America to great success. Michell then directed My Night with Reg (1997) and Titanic Town(1998). Michell was next chosen by Richard Curtis to direct his script Notting Hill, which ended up becoming one of the highest grossing British movies of all time on its release in 1999. He then directed the 2002 box office hit Changing Lanes. In 2003, he directed The Mother, written by Hanif Kureishi and starring Daniel Craig. Craig also starred in Michell's next film, Enduring Love (2004), an adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel. Michell then directed Peter O'Toole to an Oscar nomination in 2006's Venus, again written by Kureishi. His next film was 2010's Morning Glory. Michell directed Hyde Park on Hudson starring Bill Murray as United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
2017 My cousin Rachel
2013 Le Week-End
2012 Hyde Park on Hudson
2010 Morning Glory
2006 Venus
2004 Enduring Love
2003 The Mother
2002 Changing Lanes
1999 Notting Hill
1998 Titanic Town
1997 My Night with Reg
