A stylish but oblique picture that offers little in the way of neat resolution.

It is a pity that Pawlikowski abandons his quietly haunting impressionism in the film's more literal second half.

"The Woman in the Fifth" leaves so many holes unfilled that instead of ending up intriguing, it's just plain frustrating.

The result is something akin to an elegiac and surreal ghost story, but it's as evocative as it is unsolvable.