Post by Eλευθερί on Apr 27, 2021 11:11:21 GMT
Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, and the Cote d'Azur!
Supporting role played by British actor John Williams, who had played the police detective in Dial M For Murder the year before.
This film makes me want to visit France.
But it portrays a vision of France that no longer exists (if it ever did)—a time in the post-war years when the exchange rate was about 330 francs to a US dollar.
It's one of the great classic films, but there are flaws if you are looking closely.
Editing was a little sloppy, with scenes where facial expressions and body positions aren't quite consistent as the camera angles switch back and forth. Dubbing in one scene was really bad—the restaurateur Bertrani can be heard speaking lines but his mouth isn't moving!
I kept seeing this huge lump in the middle of Cary Grant's forehead. Never noticed it before. Is it visible in his other movies?
The film is very enjoyable up until the costume ball scene, where we are jolted into seeing one of the party guests entering dressed as ?Catherine the Great with two black boys as servants/pages.
And the hilarity of the fact that Cary Grant(!) is playing an avowed bachelor in his late 40s or 50s, who we are reminded several times has never married and who shows much more interest in beautiful, rich, and very available Grace Kelly's jewels than her body. In 1950s Hollywood movie plots, absolutely no possibility that the reason he never married wasn't that he "just never found the time," as Grant's character says.
10/10 for the locations
10/10 for the car chase (it had me gripping the edge of my seat)
9/10 for costumes
Cinematography was limited by the technology available at the time. Just imagine what Hitchcock & team could have done in this film with modern steadicams, drones, aerial photography.
8.5/10
Supporting role played by British actor John Williams, who had played the police detective in Dial M For Murder the year before.
This film makes me want to visit France.
But it portrays a vision of France that no longer exists (if it ever did)—a time in the post-war years when the exchange rate was about 330 francs to a US dollar.
It's one of the great classic films, but there are flaws if you are looking closely.
Editing was a little sloppy, with scenes where facial expressions and body positions aren't quite consistent as the camera angles switch back and forth. Dubbing in one scene was really bad—the restaurateur Bertrani can be heard speaking lines but his mouth isn't moving!
I kept seeing this huge lump in the middle of Cary Grant's forehead. Never noticed it before. Is it visible in his other movies?
The film is very enjoyable up until the costume ball scene, where we are jolted into seeing one of the party guests entering dressed as ?Catherine the Great with two black boys as servants/pages.
And the hilarity of the fact that Cary Grant(!) is playing an avowed bachelor in his late 40s or 50s, who we are reminded several times has never married and who shows much more interest in beautiful, rich, and very available Grace Kelly's jewels than her body. In 1950s Hollywood movie plots, absolutely no possibility that the reason he never married wasn't that he "just never found the time," as Grant's character says.
10/10 for the locations
10/10 for the car chase (it had me gripping the edge of my seat)
9/10 for costumes
Cinematography was limited by the technology available at the time. Just imagine what Hitchcock & team could have done in this film with modern steadicams, drones, aerial photography.
8.5/10
