The Intruder

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Watched this a few days ago & found it overall to be pretty dry & uninteresting. The film centers around a married woman who not long after getting married starts to see cracks in her hubby's past. The previous woman he was with starts to "haunt" their flat & move things around etc. But there's a more deeper mystery to this story as the film unfolds. I found the film to be pretty dry in all honesty. I usually like thrillers but this lacked the punch most thrillers of today usually have. Although there was some sinister moments in this 1hr & 30min film, I still couldn't help but feel the film felt dull & lacked emphasis. Overall it was watchable, but was pretty dry sadly. 4/10

David Bailey, a well known photographer, tried his hand at directing by turning Brooke Leimas' novel, which we read some time ago, into a mystery film. The screen play is by Jamie Brown, and it appears his adaptation is the basic flaw with the finished product. We are given a premise that has been used before with better results. The second wife who comes to live in an unhappy place where the ghost of a dead woman comes back to haunt the new wife and make her life impossible. After all, even from a grave, don't play with a woman's sense of possession, she will come back to haunt whoever dares. Stella, who is only seen by Catherine, a French young woman who has married Nick, a composer of music for the movies. Everything seems to go bad when strange things are happening in the couple's apartment. It doesn't help that most of Catherine's new friends seem to be in some sort of conspiracy of silence and will not tell her anything about the past and what kind of marriage Stella and Nick had together. Charlotte Gainsbourg is an actress that deserves better. Her Catherine shows some good moments, but like everyone else, she is bogged down by a scenario that doesn't make much sense. Natassja Kinski, plays the enigmatic neighbor that seems to know what is behind the things Catherine seems to be experiencing, but doesn't tell her. The rest of the cast don't have much to do.