"When the rickety ladder that gets them to a tiny platform at the structure's top falls to smithereens, the women suddenly discover new meanings of SOL. The film is nothing if not an excuse to gloriously parade a series of show-stopping, sweaty-palm scenes, yet it becomes a deeply psychological, intricate twin character study as Mann gradually peels back the layers of Hunter and Becky's up-and-down friendship, and the latter's gradual rediscovery of her courage."
"In Victorian-era London, Gregory moves his new wife, Paula (Ingrid Bergman), into a sprawling gilded cage of a townhouse that just so happens to be the site of her aunt's still-unsolved murder. There, Gregory slowly and systematically attempts to convince Paula she's insane. George Cukor's slow burn remains maddening as ever 80 years since its release, anchored by Bergman's steely, Oscar-winning performance: even as she unravels, she resists shrinking into fragility."
Fall centers on two thrill-seeking climbers, Hunter and Becky, who ascend a decommissioned TV transmission tower in the desert as immersion therapy after a traumatic death. A collapsed ladder strands them on a tiny platform, producing vertigo-inducing physical peril and prolonged, sweaty-palmed suspense. The film doubles as an intimate psychological twin character study that teases apart their friendship, grief, fear, and the gradual rediscovery of courage. Gaslight follows Gregory and his new wife Paula in Victorian London, where Gregory isolates Paula in a gilded townhouse and methodically gaslights her regarding her aunt's unsolved murder. Ingrid Bergman's steely performance anchors the slow-burn psychological manipulation.
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