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The Unknown Woman

Drama. Mystery In director Giuseppe Tornatore's (CINEMA PARADISO) haunting story of mystery and love, a Russian woman named Irena (Xenia Rappoport) calculatedly insinuates herself into the lives of a young, affluent Italian family. Stopping at nothing to become the couple's trusted maid and the beloved nanny to their fragile young daughter (Clara Dossena), Irena risks everything in her quest to uncover the truth about the family. Like an intricately ... [+]
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United States
Variety
"The film has major problems blending the strong social theme of exploitation and white slavery with Tornatore's noirish screenplay, full of holes and improbabilities."
United States
Chicago Sun-Times
"A spellbinder with a lot of Hitchcock touches and an Ennio Morricone score to match." 
United States
Boston Globe
"Plays like a cross between Hitchcock and tabloid feminism, a mix that shouldn't work and doesn't." 
United States
Entertainment Weekly
"[A] baroquely lurid and undeniably fascinating exercise in pulp"
United States
New York Post
"It gets more and more ridiculous and unbelievable as it goes along" 
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