Northwest Film Forum

In a crumbling apartment, an old woman, her son, her nurse, the nurse's lover, and a lodger quarrel, maneuver, and betray each other over money. The visual design, with its blue-gray and orange-red lighting, stresses the artificiality of the closed environment. In this dense setting, the inhabitants of the apartment reveal their darkest secrets, fears, obsessions and hostilities in a style that combines the anguish and existentialism of Bergman with the emotional intensity of Cassavetes.