Roeg adapts a haunting, grief-stricken gothic-horror short story by Daphne Du Maurier about coming to terms with the seemingly random, chaotic, and inexplicable nature of death, and—in the process of loosely borrowing grammar from Hitchcock (who also adapted Du Maurier into Rebecca and The Birds), Resnais, and the Giallo in order to conjure this idea cinematically—ends up with one of the most surreal, impressionistic psychological horror experiences maybe ever assembled.
The first time I watched this I think I was…
