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One to admire or abhor, director Nicolas Roeg's case history of a sexual obsession dazzles with flashbacks and disturbs with “What if?” sidetracks. Art Garfunkel is the psycho-psychiatrist involved in a sadistic affair with Theresa Russell that starts with the girl's suicide attempt and ends with even nastier revelations about their relationship. Seven years after his poignantly creepy Don't Look Now, Roeg piles on angst-ridden chic to the detriment of human values and sympathy, but, for what he achieves in complexity and conviction, it's well worth watching.

Weird and unsympathetic sex melodrama, presented with the disconnected style expected from this director as a series of flashbacks from the heroine's near-deathbed.