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| Gaslight |
George Cukor's seminal 'Freudian feminist melodrama', starring the incomparable Ingrid Bergman
Described variously as one of the 'Freudian feminist melodramas' and a 'trapped housewife' film of the 1940s, this is a richly suggestive and significant work, often imitated.
Beyond its stylish, plot-driven efficiency as an atmospheric costume thriller, and its magnificent role for a passionate-but-nervous Ingrid Bergman, the film traces the contours of a fascinatingly dark and ambivalent female fantasy: what if one's suave, beloved husband were actually a calculating murderer?
