Sitting below them in the frame, her weakness is emphasized by Preminger’s camera. If you didn’t know better, you’d be sure they were husband and wife.Īnn flanked by two police officers. The black column of the door further enhances the separation between the two characters. Steven’s childlike qualities are emphasized throughout the film, and he is shown several times near or on a swing-set. The dramatic lighting only serves to enhance the creepiness of the scene’s atmosphere.Īnn and Steven conferring, while Steven rests on the toy horse.
Eccentric is an understatement.Īctress Martita Hunt, as the former headmistress Miss Ford, was known for her role as the mad, reclusive Miss Havisham in the classic period piece Great Expectations (1946). Fertility, she says, is not her problem.Īnn and Steven questioning the former headmistress of the school who resides in the school’s top floor. One of them is good for fertility, he tells Ann. Noel Coward, as the landlord Wilson, with his dog, Samantha. Our first interaction between Ann and Steven Lake happens via telephone – again, separation between people. More closed doors that need to be opened!Īnn and the cook, with characteristic Preminger wide-shot, characters as far apart from each other as possible. Ann walks throughout the school, which is strangely vacant, searching for someone with whom to talk about her daughter. We first meet Ann after she has dropped off her daughter in the “First Day” room of her new school. Steven Lake then begins a series of locking gates and doors as he closes up a house. We first meet Steven Lake as he picks up a teddy bear from the ground beside a swing set. The film’s title sequence, designed by Saul Bass, features a motif of paper being torn away to reveal what is underneath. Who is missing in "Bunny Lake"? by Dahlia Schweitzer JUMP CUT
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