The Passionate Friends (1949)
Directed by David Lean
A woman is torn between the love of her life, who's married to someone else, and her older husband.
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What critics compared The Passionate Friends to
Rebecca and other influential melodramas, including Hitchcock’s Suspicion or David Lean’s The Passionate Friends, focus on the protagonist (her interiority particularly in the face of an obscure, oppressive husband); films like Vertigo, as well as other mystery or thriller texts such as du Maurier’s novel My Cousin Rachel focus on the interrogation of the woman, giving a space in which to critique the man’s paranoia and control.
He openly acknowledges that this film, in particular, stems from a rich lineage of gothic romances; such as Gaslight, Hitchcock’s Rebecca, and the David Lean films Brief Encounter, and The Passionate Friends.
Como un elegante conjunto, Anderson diseña El hilo fantasma con una amplia variedad de referencias que van de la profunda y elegante simplicidad de los dramas de David Lean, como Brief Encounter (1945) o The Passionate Friends (1949), bordadas con destreza hithcockiana (Rebecca, 1940) y con una fantasmagoría femenina que remite más a Mizoguchi (Ugetsu monogatari, 1953), sobre todo como la ambición masculina consume el alma femenina hasta desvanecerla en actos de la más sutil y delicada crueldad.