In this Cornell Woolrich adaptation, Jeanne Moreau avenges herself on the men responsible for her groom’s death, entering their lives to fascinate, terrify, and ultimately destroy them. “The movie is technically a suspense and horror film—a tribute to Alfred Hitchcock. . . . But Truffaut is such a poetic filmmaker that the film turns around and becomes, not at all Hitchcockian, but a gentle comedy and one of the few plausible and strange love stories in a long time” (Renata Adler, New York Times).