Originally produced for Italian television, Bernardo Bertolucci's The Spider's Stratagem (La Strategia del Ragno) can be regarded as a cinematic tone poem. Adapted from a Jorge Luis Borges short story ...
Summary: Early work by Bertolucci, derived from a Borges story, and dealing with a political assassination from the viewpoint not (as in the later The Conformist) of the perpetrator but of the victim.
A woman leaves Paris, where she lives with her daughter and husband, to take over the position of her father as an architect in Turin.