Smart and brash, it's a picture Bette Davis and Joan Crawford would have killed (preferably each other) to be in.

That's the wonder of the film: it's about the vicious power of loneliness, played out through a story of two women in love. The tragedy, for both of them, is that it's not with each other.

Blanchett has also recently appeared in The Good German and Babel, but this represents far and away her best work.

A gripping twin character study... Darkly camp and spanning just 92 perfectly paced minutes, this is an intense immersion into two very ugly psyches.