He and Ambrose spend a lot of time on their estate in Cornwall, smoking pipes and putting their feet on furniture and talking about how great life is with no jabbering women around.Īmbrose is ordered to go to Italy for his health and Philip is astounded to learn that Ambrose falls in love and marries while in Florence. Ambrose was a happy bachelor and although everyone assumes that Philip will eventually marry Louise, his neighbor, Philip wants to remain a bachelor as well. Ambrose distills a love of the bachelor life in Philip, along with a hefty dose of misogyny. Philip, who is twenty-four years old, was raised by Ambrose, his much older cousin. The 1959 novel by Daphne Du Maurier is narrated by Philip Ashley. The question is, what version of the story will we see? It would be completely possible to make multiple different versions of this story, all faithful to the original book, and yet all very different, because this is a story about how the stories we tell ourselves and the characters we create take over our heads and leave us unable to really know each other. This summer we are graced with a movie version of My Cousin Rachel, which delights me no end.
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