Sight and Sound (2000) - Notorious

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• book review: Notorious
• author(s): Geoffrey Macnab
• journal: Sight and Sound (01/Dec/2000)
• issue: volume 10, issue 12, page 62
• journal ISSN: 0037-4806
• publisher: British Film Institute
• keywords: Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, Claude Rains, Ingrid Bergman, Joan Fontaine, Leopoldine Konstantin, Notorious (1946), Rebecca (1940), Video recordings

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Abstract

Macnab reviews Notorious directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Article

'Notorious' Alfred Hitchcock; USA 1946; PT; £9.99; B/W; Certificate TBC

Despite the playful scene in which Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman (left) share a kiss lasting almost three minutes as they make small talk about supper, this is among Hitchcock's most disquieting thrillers. For most of the film, Grant's treatment of Bergman is sadistic in the extreme. (Claude Rains, the ostensible villain, behaves far more considerately towards her.) When Grant isn't tormenting her, Bergman has Rains' terrifying mother (Leopoldine Konstantin) to deal with. Her trials make you think that Joan Fontaine had it easy in 'Rebecca'. Digitally remastered. (MFB No. 160)