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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