Catching up on some De Palma blindspots this summer & wow, Sisters might be my new favorite? I’m still a total sucker for the Hitch stuff, but I love how De Palma’s references are never seem to be ends in themselves. They don’t feel merely derivative.
Some observations:
1) The Vertigo/Psycho-like extreme close-up Grace’s eye here is situated within a surreal Spellbound-like dream sequence, and that placement in the dream, in part, centers the focus more firmly around the female experience—Grace’s…
