She's playing crazy to steal his heart—literally. Argentine noir where everyone's gaslighting everyone.
Saverio is an insurance broker who arrives in a small town after receiving a letter from a potential client requesting insurance for "special affections." Upon arriving at the mansion, Saverio is captivated by the beauty of Susana, the granddaughter and heiress to a vast fortune—beautiful, refined, and cultured. What Saverio doesn't suspect is that he will become the victim of a macabre plot, in which he plays a crucial role. Susana, in collusion with her family and friends, will feign madness with the sole purpose of making Saverio fall at her feet.
Acting
Borges' ice-queen precision vs. Alcón's unraveling desperation
Cinematography
Cramped mansion shadows, Argentina's Gothic golden hour
Direction
Wullicher's clinical eye for cruelty in drawing rooms
Director
Ricardo Wullicher
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Argentina's 1970s 'cine de terror doméstico'—bourgeois anxiety films made under dictatorship, where real horror stayed off-screen.
Wullicher shot this between his documentary work and Perónist exile; the mansion was a real decaying aristocratic estate outside Buenos Aires.
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