Elisabeth Wiener

To that list of 1960s films about voyeurism add La Prisonnière, the great Henri-Georges Clouzot’s last film, his only (completed) one in colour and a worthy, if weird entrant in the canon containing Psycho, Peeping Tom and Blowup. There is definitely something very, very Hitchcock going on in this offering from 1968, made when Hitchcock had gone off the boil. And so had Clouzot, to be honest, though Clouzot has the edge on his old rival here. Looking, seeing, watching but not taking part is one of the ideas. Alongside a vague discussion about women’s complicity in their own enslavement in the story of a TV editor who becomes fascinated with a gallery … Read more