Vincent Bruce, a war veteran, begins working as an occupational therapist at Poplar Lodge, a private psychiatric facility for wealthy people where he meets Lilith Arthur, a charming young woman suffering from schizophrenia, whose fragile beauty captivates all who meet her.
Cinematography
Eugene Shuftan's lens makes madness look like a perfume ad
Acting
Jean Seberg's fragile magnetism is genuinely unsettling
Direction
Rossen's last film — slow, hypnotic, deeply personal
Director
Robert Rossen
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