It’s a flow of sequences that build a dark, quiet stairway of tension, yet they’re also thoroughly self-contained because they’re so finely and fully attuned to setting, atmosphere and the inside and outside of every character in these very moments.
Two average people fall into strange and dangerous situations, one being a platinum blonde in a Hitchcockian film so carefully measured, so understated that if the story of a scene can be told with no words, then we will hear no words. In this way, it’s pure cinema. It’s a flow of sequences that build a dark, quiet stairway of tension, yet they’re also thoroughly self-contained because they’re so finely and fully attuned to setting, atmosphere and the inside and outside of every character in these very moments.