Set during the years between the "Rebecca" trial and the writing of Du Maurier's short story "The Birds", including her relationship with her husband Frederick 'Boy' Browning, and her largely unrequited infatuations with American publishing tycoon's wife Ellen Doubleday and the actress Gertrude Lawrence.
Acting
Geraldine Somerville's restrained hunger—she communicates everything she can't say.
Costume
The clothes speak: tweed armor vs. the softness she longs to touch.
Director
Clare Beavan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Janet McTeer had already played Gertrude Lawrence on stage; she basically borrowed her own costumes.
Du Maurier's estate initially fought this film for depicting her bisexuality—proving the movie's point about erasure.
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