I've had this one at home for awhile, and it's just time to watch it, dammit. I love Audrey Hepburn, and I've heard from a few people that it's a pretty great movie. I've also heard it's laughable, so I guess you can't always go by what you hear. I'm being optimistic, though. I'm sure it will be better than the preceding movie I watched, the largely unnecessary Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. This will be my second Audrey Hepburn film, after the pretty great Charade. All I actually know about this film is that Hepburn is blind, and some people think she has something (drugs, maybe?) hidden in her house and things don't go well for her because of it. The movie also stars also-Oscar winner Alan Arkin and character actor Richard Crenna.
Okay, so the movie is not at all laughable; it's really a taut thriller (hooray for suspenseful one-setting dramas!) wonderfully acted by all three leads. The intro paragraph of the review is basically the film's entire premise, but skillfully drawn out. The wonderful thing about the film is the way its tension just keeps growing and growing and is pretty unrelenting. And it's not done like 1408 where things just keep getting stupider and stupider, but rather more like a Hitchcock thriller where the plot actually makes sense and the psychological suspense can hit its viewers at a personal level. Really a pretty great job.
Score: 9/10
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