La Donna Che Visse Due Volte by Boileau-Narcejac
A retired detective with a crippling fear of heights is hired to shadow a client's enigmatic wife, who seems possessed by the past; he becomes obsessed and falls in love, and when she dies after a fall his guilt and longing drive him to pursue a younger woman who resembles her. As he attempts to recreate and possess the lost ideal, deception and manipulation are revealed and the boundary between reality and illusion collapses into a tragic psychological unraveling.
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- Published
- 1954
- Nationality
- French
- Length
- Unknown
- Pages
- Unknown
- Original Language
- French
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- Alternate Titles
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- D'Entre les morts
- La donna che visse due volte
- The Living and the Dead
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