Second viewing; previously viewed between 1983 and 1986.
A lonely woman invites a stranger to her house, and develops erotic designs on him.
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From a review of the source novel one sees that this film departs somewhat from it. The reviewer reminds us that the novel's author probably took inspiration from the short story The Silver Mask, written by Hugh Walpole but misattributed to someone else in the review. Curiously, in that short story, it was the woman who became a prisoner; here, it is the lad. In that sense, the film might be viewed as a female version of The Collector, released a few years earlier. That Cold Day in the Park is very well directed, and the casting for the protagonist was very fortunate, but it's otherwise a frequently dull movie. Its Wikipedia page quotes some perceptive remarks from a famous critic.
Rating: 49 (unchanged)
