Hitchcock (2012)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 98m
Director: Sacha Gervasi
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson, Danny Huston, Toni Collette, Jessica Biel
Synopsis:
After North by Northwest, the director casts around for a project with which to reinvent himself, and finds a horror novel called Psycho. The studio is aghast, his wife, Alma, is unconvinced, but together they finance the movie themselves.
Review:
Focusing less on the intricacies of decision-making that formed the movie, and more on the ups and downs in the Hitchcocks' home life, this big screen foray into the complex psyche of the Master of Suspense tells us nothing that the almost contemporary TV movie, The Girl, had not already done a good deal better, and without the cosy big-screen treatment, whereby the sinister Svengali is domesticated once more. One yearns for an insight into the filmmaking process of the man, whether it be a camera angle, a glimpse into the moviola, or the famous hands raised, frame-shaped, for the actors; and the inaccuracies (no Saul Bass) and subplot concerning Alma's near-fling with writer (Huston) are irksome.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 98m
Director: Sacha Gervasi
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson, Danny Huston, Toni Collette, Jessica Biel
Synopsis:
After North by Northwest, the director casts around for a project with which to reinvent himself, and finds a horror novel called Psycho. The studio is aghast, his wife, Alma, is unconvinced, but together they finance the movie themselves.
Review:
Focusing less on the intricacies of decision-making that formed the movie, and more on the ups and downs in the Hitchcocks' home life, this big screen foray into the complex psyche of the Master of Suspense tells us nothing that the almost contemporary TV movie, The Girl, had not already done a good deal better, and without the cosy big-screen treatment, whereby the sinister Svengali is domesticated once more. One yearns for an insight into the filmmaking process of the man, whether it be a camera angle, a glimpse into the moviola, or the famous hands raised, frame-shaped, for the actors; and the inaccuracies (no Saul Bass) and subplot concerning Alma's near-fling with writer (Huston) are irksome.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 98m
Director: Sacha Gervasi
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson, Danny Huston, Toni Collette, Jessica Biel
Synopsis:
After North by Northwest, the director casts around for a project with which to reinvent himself, and finds a horror novel called Psycho. The studio is aghast, his wife, Alma, is unconvinced, but together they finance the movie themselves.
Review:
Focusing less on the intricacies of decision-making that formed the movie, and more on the ups and downs in the Hitchcocks' home life, this big screen foray into the complex psyche of the Master of Suspense tells us nothing that the almost contemporary TV movie, The Girl, had not already done a good deal better, and without the cosy big-screen treatment, whereby the sinister Svengali is domesticated once more. One yearns for an insight into the filmmaking process of the man, whether it be a camera angle, a glimpse into the moviola, or the famous hands raised, frame-shaped, for the actors; and the inaccuracies (no Saul Bass) and subplot concerning Alma's near-fling with writer (Huston) are irksome.