As James, you must delve into the titular town after receiving a letter from your most definitely dead wife asking you to meet her there. (gamesradar.com)
A clear reference point for Phantom Thread is Hitchcock's 1940 film Rebecca, in which a young naïve woman (Joan Fontaine) marries a widower (Laurence Olivier), who is still in thrall to his perfect dead wife, Rebecca. (filmcomment.com)
Pedro Almodóvar, the Spanish master of kink and perverse soap opera («Matador,» «Law of Desire,» «Talk to Her»), here plunges into high Gothic melodrama, with Antonio Banderas as a wealthy and reclusive plastic surgeon, who becomes obsessed with implanting the features of his beautiful, beloved, dead wife on the face of a female prisoner (Elena Anaya) whom he keeps hidden away in his posh isolated home. (filmnoirblonde.com)