Jane appears to be ideal: attractive, intelligent, unruffled by her employer's abrupt eccentricities. But, gradually, we come aware that Jane has another agenda. Incrementally, Sir Paul's familiar surroundings are altered. His housekeeper is diverted away, strange things happen around the house and he becomes increasingly dependent on his new assistant.
Acting
Tom Conti does 'blind and increasingly unhinged' with theatrical precision.
Direction
Raúl Ruiz's final film—elegant, weird, slightly off-kilter.
Director
Raúl Ruiz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Raúl Ruiz died mere months after completing this, his 100+ film. He reportedly called it 'a small film about big things.'
The novel's author Gilbert Adair also wrote 'The Dreamers'—he clearly had a thing about watching and being watched.
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