A playwright encounters a mysterious woman when he takes shelter in a chalet during a violent snowstorm and becomes obsessed with her.
Acting
Huppert's glacial, unreadable magnetism carries every frame.
Cinematography
Snow-blind isolation that mirrors Bertrand's collapsing perspective.
Director
Benoît Jacquot
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on a 1945 James Hadley Chase novel, previously adapted in 1962 with Jeanne Moreau—Huppert's spiritual predecessor in icy eroticism.
Jacquot deliberately cast Huppert against type: she's neither victim nor femme fatale, but something deliberately unplaceable that breaks the thriller's expected structure.
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