Suspicion (Hitchcock, 1941): BFI Southbank, NFT1, 8.45pm
This film, being shown as part of the Alfred Hitchcock season at BFI Southbank, is also screening on Sep 22nd and Oct 6th and 7th. Details here.
Chicago Reader review:
'Everyone concedes that this 1941 Hitchcock film is a failure, yet it
displays so much artistic seriousness that I find its failure utterly
mysterious—especially since the often criticized ending (imposed on
Hitchcock by the studio) makes perfect sense to me. This is the first
film in which Hitchcock puts his dazzling technical imagination wholly
in the service of his art: note his subtlety in establishing the menace
of the Cary Grant character by never allowing him to be seen walking
into a shot; he simply appears in the scene, his entrance covered by a
cut or dissolve. Grant gives what is perhaps the finest of his many
great performances for Hitchcock: required to play two different,
completely contradictory characters simultaneously, he never cheats or
flattens out, but plays in magnificent, mysterious depth. With Joan
Fontaine (who won the Oscar that Grant deserved) and Nigel Bruce.'
Dave Kehr
Here is the trailer.
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