Shattered mirrors, red herrings and small details that matter more than large ones. There is an art to the whodunit that is evident in the first frames of Susanne Bier’s The Undoing, with its grey skies and dead tree limbs, intended to conjure a world where everything is shrouded in the winter mist and nothing is certain.
At the beating heart of this story sits Grace Fraser (Nicole Kidman) the kind of therapist who, if she lived on America’s west coast, would have a syndicated talk show and an Instagram following in the millions. In New York, however, she is bolted more simply to the…
