Glass Ceiling

A young woman suspects something sinister is happening in the apartment above hers when she hears strange noises and notices her neighbor’s sudden disappearance. Her attempts to uncover the truth are met with evasions, cryptic warnings, and mounting paranoia. This taut Spanish mystery layers suspense and psychological tension within a confined, claustrophobic setting.

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  The Glass Ceiling is a psychological thriller in the Hitchcock mold—specifically, it can be read as something of an update of Rear Window (1954). … In common with the Hitchcock film, the action unfolds during a hot spell; the heat acts as a catalyst of sorts, prompting the characters to behave irrationally and to act on their worst instincts. In this sense, it’s also something of a precursor to Armando Crispino’s Autopsy (1975), wherein an intense Roman heat wave is directly linked to a series of gruesome suicides.