This film is a Western, but combines a number of strange bedfellows - the romantic comedies of Hawks (two men fight over a woman treated as a slave); melodrama (the film is brilliant at visualising the limited options open to Rachel, from the proscenium curtains looking out at a world she has no freedom in and the metronome ticking away her life, to the overall claustrophobic setting (a small farm) and limited dramatis personae), and even psychological thriller

-like REBECCA, Rachel is a second wife living in the shadow of a perfect predecessor;both films share a cathartic conflagration.The unsophisticated characters conceal a complex film about family and gender, in which the usual Indian threat is more of a psychological displacement.