This film is very, very underrated. It has elements of the Gothic including a rambling house full of paintings of a mysterious woman, painted by a man who plays the piano to drive off inner nightmares and outer fears. Held for a woman's murder in Paris there was insufficient evidence to convict him. And now he sits with his devoted mother and at her bidding goes out to find life again. No spoilers but it is almost as good as Hitchcock's ' Psycho ' and its atmosphere in my opinion much darker. Francis Lederer plays the man, handsome and sinister and women of course want to get to know him. The plot is in a way ' Psycho ' turned upside down, and it is excellently directed and well acted. It is on YouTube and in a perfect copy. I highly recommend it. A film that is not on male on female violence and yet everything points that way. Watch it and wait for the surprise.
Review of The Madonna's Secret
