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Marnie by Alfred Hitchcock
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DVD detailsActor: Diane Baker, Louise Latham, Martin Gabel, Sean Connery, Tippi Hedren Director: Alfred Hitchcock Brand: Universal Cinematographer: Robert Burks Producer: Alfred Hitchcock Editor: George Tomasini Writer: Jay Presson Allen Writer: Winston Graham DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Dubbed) Format: Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.85:1 Running Time: 130 minutes DVD Release Date: 2006-02-07 Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Studio: Universal Studios
DVD Reviews of MarnieDVD Review: Marnie Summary: 5 StarsLoved the movie both lead characters are favorite of mine,its great to connect with them again.
DVD Review: Even in a trauma we remain free Summary: 4 StarsThis film is extremely powerful because it centers on a woman who obviously has a problem, not an accident but a problem. We know very fast she is having many identities and that her main objective in the jobs she gets with her charm more than her references is to steal the cash from the firm's safe and leave. We understand she is taking care of a mother of hers with that money more than of herself. One man, one of his employers, officially the fifth one, will though go through the surface and discover who she really is, but he falls in love with her and, being a sort of anthropologist (zoologist is the word he uses, isn't it?) and psychologist, he is fascinated by her criminal personality and her fears and he decides to get her out of both. He has to bring her back to the trauma she lived when a small child and confront her with her own mother and the truth. And she is finally liberated from the fear caused by the absence of conscious memory of her crime at the time. I won't say more on the details. I am interested in the way Hitchcock builds his own case little by little and brings us to the point when the trauma can be relived and revealed. Yet I find his social psychology a little bit simple altogether. He only centers on the negative elements. He should have shown how ambiguous the girl must have been at the time with the two adults she was confronted to and with herself and her own act that made her accept her mother telling a lie to save her, because a child who has committed a crime understands very well when the adult covers his or her mistake and then the feelings are always ambiguous and it is that ambiguity that makes the child forget about the incident that becomes a trauma. The liberation is also absolutely too mechanical to be real. Yes there often is an illumination that is sudden but then the transformation of the traumatized individual is long because the trauma left a lot of traces, blocking elements or just gremlins in the head of the traumatized one. But Hitchcock does it very well. In 1964 he could only be inspired by Freud of whom he proposes a simplified reading, but today he would appear as a disciple of Ron L. Hubbard because dianetics is just what this film is, a mechanical and simplified version of psychoanalysis. That's another Hitchcock film from the 60s that has suffered some with the passing of time.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
DVD Review: Another great Hitchcock movie. Summary: 5 StarsA very good character study of a frigid, kleptomaniac with a love triangle thrown in to boot. Tippi Hedren is much better in this one than in "The Birds".
DVD Review: Marnie has issues. Summary: 4 StarsMarnie starring Tippi Hedren and Sean Connery is a deeply disturbing drama directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Hedren is completely captivating in the title-role, she is so much more effective in this film than The Birds. I won't give away the ending but expect a creepy and complexed climax. This movie isn't considered a Hitchcock classic but it's definitely worth a viewing, enjoy!
DVD Review: Marnie is Marvelous!! Summary: 5 StarsGood classic Hitchcock film that never loses it's appeal. Why can't all movies have the class that these older films possess? You know there is a romantic quality in the story line without having to endure sexual scenes that are unnecessary. Plan on getting more of these types of films for the family!!
Description of MarnieMark marries marnie although she is a habitual thief and has serious psychological problems and tries to help her confront and resolve them. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 02/07/2006 Starring: Diane Baker Sean Connery Rating: Pg You could call this one Hoot Along with Hitch. With the possible exceptions of Topaz and Family Plot, this is Hitchcock's cheesiest movie, visually and psychologically crass in comparison with a peak achievement like Vertigo--although it shares some of that film's characteristic obsessive themes. Sean Connery, fresh from the second Bond picture, From Russia with Love, is a Philadelphia playboy who begins to fall for Tippi Hedren's blonde ice goddess only when he realizes that she's a professional thief; she's come to work in his upper-crust insurance office in order to embezzle mass quantities. His patient program of investigation and surveillance has a creepy, voyeuristic quality that's pure Hitchcock, but all's lost when it emerges that the root of Marnie's problem is phobic sexual frigidity, induced by a childhood trauma. Luckily, Sean is up to the challenge. As it were. Not even D.H. Lawrence believed as fervently as Hitchcock in the curative properties of sexual release. --David Chute
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