Hitchcock - Film Review (NO SPOILERS)
February 01, 2015
Director: Sacha Gervasi
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson, Toni Collette, Danny Huston, Jessica Biel, James D'Arcy, Michael Wincott
Let’s be
honest here, Alfred Hitchcock is one of THE MOST famous directors in film
history, so watching about a man that spent his life behind the camera led to
an interesting insight into the man himself.
Breaking
the fourth wall from the onset, this film was quirky and used the element of
hindsight perfectly. In this case, the audience was gifted with knowing the
outcome of the film, but this didn’t detract from the overall storyline and I
was still interested in Hitchcock’s struggle to produce Psycho. Helen Mirren
was brilliant as Hitchcock’s wife and Anthony Hopkins managed to show his
diversity as an actor by showing emotions simply through his eyes.
Overall,
this was a film about a controversial man, the costumes were lovely and the
incorporation of fact and fiction worked well.
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