I AM ALFRED HITCHCOCK (Canadá, 2021) – Excelente documentário sobre a vida e obra de AH. No entanto, faltou um personagem marcante: Bernard Hermann, a alma musical de tantos sucessos, como PSICOSE. Born in 1899, Sir Alfred Hitchcock KBE directed over 50 feature films, becoming as well-known as his actors. His work received 46 Academy Awards, including five for best director. He won two Golden Globes and five-lifetime achievement awards. Oscar nominated five times for Best Director, he is among a few British directors with a plaque on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It is a study of Alfred Hitchcock’s work, illustrated with clips chosen with tremendous insight and connoisseurship – and supposedly narrated from beyond the grave by Hitchcock himself, pointing out techniques, resonances, images, meanings and occasionally breaking off to check something. With great elan, Hitchcock/Cousins breaks the movies down to six themes: escape desire, loneliness, time, fulfillment, and height. You see characters escaping from danger or unhappiness, desiring pleasure or sex (the escape impulse running the opposite way) in an infinitely deferred consummation, declaimed in ecstatic closeups, which is shrewdly called chaste-arousal.HBO Max.
