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A fractured narrative accompanies the protagonists fractured mind, in this bizarre but compelling offering from director Robert Altman.

From the start of the movie you know Cathy has problems (the movie description gives it away.) This knowledge doesn't ruin the movie at all. It actually works out better as we get straight to the good stuff so to speak, instead of some boring slow mental breakdown we have something more interesting. The tone is just right. Very natural and well acted. It quickly became a little bit boring due to lack of character and plot development. I kind of wished Cathryn had started sane now. The isolation from the lonely house didn't help give us anything interesting either. It was cliché. Even the disturbance around the character of Cathryn were cliché.
Slow burner movies like this need lots of atmosphere. Setting it in the hills in an isolated house was merely a veneer Not enough. Where was the atmosphere from the characters? The movie focuses heavily on one character, yet she's underdeveloped. Her journey is non existent.
There is nothing terrible about this movie either. It started off perfect and I was keen to watch it. Can't say any of the disturbing scenes disturbed me either. Overall it contained to many pitfalls that someone making a movie in this genre should have avoided.
Maybe one day I'll give it another go

Pretty incredible Robert Altman film this one. It's a character study from the point of view of a woman who is suffering from paranoid schizophrenia who is certain her husband is having an affair. It's extremely creepy, the score (by John Williams) is unsettling and Susannah York's central performance is mesmerizing. The couple take a break in the countryside (Shot in County Wicklow, Ireland) and all hell breaks loose.

All the characters are named after other characters real names - which adds to the mystery and duality of it all. It feels like Altman was riffing on his loose script, and the book that the central character is writing is the actual children's book about a unicorn she wrote in real life! Altman just said, that's cool, let's include it in the film.

Images clearly borrows from Bergman's 'Persona' but also feels as if it heavily inspired Don't Look Now. There's something very Jack Torrance about it too!

Fabulous psychological horror.

8.6/10