I knew nothing of this beyond what the poster promised ("Imagine Alfred Hitchcock directing Wuthering Heights!'") so it wasn't until the end when a titlecard states the film is based on a Russian novella that everything - the abject bleakness and the sense of confused time and place that pervades a thankless plot (a heartless Englishwoman with a household of black servants in rural England throws 19th century sensibilities into unedifying, murderous chaos) - suddenly made sense: imagine Michael Haneke directing Crime and Punishment.
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