Another Woman (1988)

Woody Allen's terrific psychological drama concerns an austere philosophy professor and author played by a really wonderful Gena Rowlands, who starts to re-evaluate her life after she becomes privy to, via an airvent (like a synapse she can block or unblock) the therapy sessions of a sad young pregnant woman (Mia Farrow).

★★★★☆

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Who You Think I Am (Celle que vous croyez) (2019)

A newspaper ad billed this Juliette Binoche movie as an "almost Hitchcockian thriller", a Google search suggests it is a comedy-drama, and Rotten Tomatoes lists the genre as "drama, mystery and suspense", but the thing it's most like, with its ponderous music and five-years-too-late Hello, My Name Is Doris subject matter (a middle-aged woman uses a fake online persona to strike up a friendship with her ex's roomie) is a dreary episode of that Catfish tv show, only slightly better than that given the absence of the hosts.

★★☆☆☆

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Verónica (2017)

When a retired psychologist agrees to start seeing a new patient, it turns out she means for her consultations with this mentally ill stranger, who may or may not be responsible for the disappearance of her former therapist, to take place in the psychologist's remote forest hideaway with the two of them magically sharing the knowledge that sleepovers are a part of the bundled service, which is the point it becomes clear this psychological thriller is not going to be very intelligent no matter how many references to Freud and the Platonic forms it bandies around.

★★☆☆☆

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