I Confess (Hitchcock, 1953): Cinema Museum, 7.30pm
This is a 35mm screening in association with Alfred Hitchcock and I Confess 70 Years On – An International Symposium.
Chicago Reader review:
Alfred Hitchcock’s earliest serious critics, the Catholic-minded Cahiers group,
revered this 1953 film above all his 50s work; today it’s very seldom
revived. Montgomery Clift plays a stone-faced priest (Hitchcock’s only
direction to him seems to have been “don’t twitch”) who hears a
confession of murder and assumes the killer’s guilt. The movie is more
interesting than achieved: it’s the most forthright statement of the
transference theme in Hitchcock’s work, but it’s also the least nuanced.
Still, there are shots of extraordinary beauty, emerging from the
grayish Quebec background like flashes into color.
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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