Prismark10 My Cousin Rachel benefits from wonderful photography, costumes and art direction but is a listless bland adaptation of the Daphne du Maurier book.Rachel Weisz plays the captivating widow Rachel who pits her wits against Philip Ashley (Sam Claflin) not yet showing any maturity or even intelligence. Philip was going to task Rachel for her role on the death of his cousin and guardian Ambrose in Italy.When Philip meets Rachel he is instantly enchanted, the relationship becomes lusty but then doubts creep in. Does she have an Italian lover? Is she trying to poison him? Philip plans to hand over the fortune he has got from Ambrose on to Rachel with no thought as to how he is going to make his way through nineteenth century England without a pot to urinate in.Philip is too weak a character who easily becomes jealous and then wants to control Rachel. The ending is possibly contradictory and leaves more questions hanging. What else could explain Philip's illness if he has not been poisoned?Weisz gives an intriguing performance but Claflin is not able to match her.

kraveheart This is my first review that has ever been negative. The story is good, the acting is great but the satisfaction at the end will leave you feeling cheated. A mystery is only fascinating and worthwhile when it is solved. The writers have chosen to waste the viewer's time by not resolving the mystery. Was she bad, or was it him? It never tells you. The writers remind me of the ones who did the TV series Lost. They too played with viewers, creating sub-plot after sub-plot but failing in the end to resolve the mysteries and bring satisfaction. Not your usual spoilers because I didn't really tell you much. Just avoid it or else you may be writing your own negative review about the time you wasted on this movie.

beladornon2 MY COUSIN RACHEL, starring the beautiful Sam Claflin and the disturbingly well-preserved Rachel Weisz, is one of those period pieces which is so full of questions that I wouldn't recommend it to viewers with a sensitive intelligent nature, or a weak stomach. The script and story make about as much sense as carpeting in the kitchen. (And why did the director have the actors mumble all of their lines as fast as possible? What are they trying not to tell us? How long is this film, anyway?)Who is this hot young guy riding through the Cornish countryside on his stallion? (Has he been adopted by his never-again seen cousin, or merely fostered by him? What was the cousin's name again? Who are all those other people?) It seems to be set in the Victorian period, and Cousin has gone off to Florence and married a half-Italian woman. (Is she also somehow his cousin, and also somehow the cousin's young ward's cousin? Does this family tree even branch?) Mysterious letters arrive, detailing Cousin's imminent death from a mysterious Ailment (Could it be Poison, or maybe a malignant Tumor?) The ward trots off to Italy to meet an Italian guy who was acquainted with Cousin (What was his name again? Who's the Italian guy, and has Rachel really just vanished? Does anyone know a good restaurant in these parts?) Florence glistens sweatily in the background, packed with orange roofs and sweltering heat. Answers elude our young buck.Young ward becomes master of the estate (What do they do on the estate? Is it a sheep farm? Why do the dogs live in the house, but no people?) After much scrubbing of the dog house with the help of Louis, the neighbor girl, a black-clad Rachel arrives and goes straight to her room without the confrontation the young ward was anticipating. (Did she poison the Cousin? Is she adulterous? How many dresses did she pack for the visit?)Seasons come and go, and widow Rachel alternates between gaily charming and sullenly petulant. (Can you really get away with wearing just one huge black dress for a year? Why is she living alone in the house with the young ward? Is she smuggling cash out of the country? Has that enormous turkey on the dining room table really been cooked long enough?)And then, because, you know, time has passed, the young ward turns twenty-five and all of the estate becomes legally his at last!- but he goes to a stickler lawyer and creates a document giving it all to Rachel until she remarries. Ecstatic with love for the mysterious moody Rachel, idiot boy rushes to her room, has sex with her (well really) and gives Rachel the paper that turns everything over to her. (Was this really smart, considering that she may well have poisoned everyone's cousin? Has the dog made off with my good shoes?) Is this the last stupid thing he does? Can Rachel be trusted? Is the sky blue? (Actually, it's a weird cyan color because they fucked up all the colors in post-production.) Young-Hot-And-Stupid soon shows signs of *gasp* poisoning! (Should he continue to drink this bitter tea, even after he sees Rachel sprinkling some mysterious powder in it? What about the tomato soup?) (And why, in a house so packed with chairs and sofas and divans, does he always fall on the floor when he swoons? Couldn't he have developed better aim?) Things look desperate, and just then Rachel plummets off a cliff and the idiot boy married that other woman. NOT for the faint of heart. (Although I must say, if this were simply a series of high definition images with music and no muttered dialogue, it would have been spectacular. Could we recut the film, and just make it a Victorian music video?)

marieltrokan A deception that's wrong to be loyal to itself is a sincerity that's right to be loyal to itself.A sincerity that's right to be self-loyal is an honesty that's wrong to be loyal.An honesty that's wrong to be loyal is a power that's wrong to be loyal.A power that's wrong to be loyal is a power that's right to be deceptiveA power that's right to lie is a power that doesn't lieA power that doesn't lie is a power that's trueA power that's true is a power that's powerA power that's power is the identification of power after power. The identity of power after power is the non-identity of weakness before weakness - the secret of deception before deceptionThe secret of deception is the secret of ill-intent. The secret of ill-intent is an evil plan that's not known.An evil plan that's not known before an evil plan is a good plan that's known after a good plan.A good plan is an insincere plan. An insincere plan is a sincere lack of plan - a sincere disorganisation A sincere disorganisation that's known after a sincere disorganisation is a sincere chaos that's exposed after a sincere chaosA sincere chaos is a pure chaos. A pure chaos is a chaos that's not created - a free chaosA free chaos is the chaos of freedom.The chaos of freedom is the elegance of oppressionThe elegance of oppression is the illusion of oppressionInnocent oppression that's exposed after innocent oppression is innocent violence that's exposed after innocent violenceInnocent violence is the danger of innocenceBeing exposed after is exposed beforeThe danger of innocence before exposed danger of innocence is the danger of innocence before known danger of innocenceBefore known is not beforeDanger of innocence after danger of innocenceDanger of innocence is illusion of innocenceIllusion of innocence after illusion of innocenceInnocence of illusion after innocence of illusionInnocence of innocence after innocence of innocenceInnocence is freedomFreedom of freedom is life of freedomLife of freedom after life of freedomAfter life of freedom is life of oppressionLife of freedom life of oppressionFree life oppressive lifeA free reality is an oppressed realityAn oppressed reality is an oppressed realityAn oppressed reality is the illusion of oppressionThe illusion of oppression is an oppressed realityAn abusive illusion is not an oppressionAn abusive illusion is a freedomA privilege is a bad disappointmentA privilege is a disappointed disappointmentA privilege is when a disappointment is disappointedA privilege is when an impossibility is impossibleA privilege is to experience the impossibility of an impossibilityThe Roger Michell adaptation, My Cousin Rachel, is about something being made impossible because it's been experienced