Marnie (Hitchcock, 1964): BFI Southbank, NFT1, 8.30pm
This is being shown as part of the Alfred Hitchcock season and also screens as part of the Queer Window season at the NFT on Oct 1 and again on Monday Oct 7.
Chicago Reader review:
'Universally despised on its first release, Marnie (1964) remains
one of Alfred Hitchcock's greatest and darkest achievements. Tippi
Hedren, in a performance based on a naked, anxious vulnerability, is a
compulsive thief; Sean Connery is the neurotically motivated southern
gentleman who catches her in the act and blackmails her into marriage.
The examination of sexual power plays surpasses Fassbinder's films,
which Marnie thematically resembles, going beyond a simple
dichotomy of strength and weakness into a dense, shifting field of
masochism, class antagonism, religious transgression, and the collective
unconscious. The mise-en-scene tends toward a painterly abstraction, as
Hitchcock employs powerful masses, blank colors, and studiously unreal,
spatially distorted settings. Theme and technique meet on the highest
level of film art. With Diane Baker and Louise Latham.' Dave Kehr
Another of Hitchcock's great trailers here. "One might call Marnie a sex mystery."
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