But
after her
first two forays into directing, «Scarlet Diva» (in which she also starred as a self - destructive starlet) and
child abuse chronicle «The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things,» she has shifted gears in several ways with her third: she makes a brief, Hitchcock - level cameo but doesn't star, and most welcome, she moves from
straight - up miserablism to a beguiling cockeyed whimsy.