They combine to bring an emotional depth to the twisting plot and elevate this thriller into a more
complex psychological drama.
The original film was
a complex psychological drama with the trappings of a police procedural thriller; the update is a smart police procedural thriller with the trappings of a restricted psychological drama.
Clouzot, perhaps most famous for two films that followed — Diabolique and The Wages of Fear — knew how to create
a complex psychological drama that defied easy explanation even though all the elements appeared straightforward.
Not exact matches
Based on true events, it looks and feels like a gripping and
complex little
psychological drama that trips wires of present - day sociological relevance, no doubt.
In an intelligent
psychological drama, director / co-writer Susanne Bier shows us some sure - footedness in developing a
complex story and engaging us with characters that make the traumatic stress disorder resulting from war revealing.
The casts form part of a
complex array of artworks in which houses take on the lives of the people who occupy them, and
psychological and emotional
dramas are expressed through objects and built spaces.