SummaryHitchcock is a love story about one of the most influential filmmakers of the last century, Alfred Hitchcock and his wife and partner Alma Reville. The film takes place during the making of Hitchcock's seminal movie Psycho.
SummaryHitchcock is a love story about one of the most influential filmmakers of the last century, Alfred Hitchcock and his wife and partner Alma Reville. The film takes place during the making of Hitchcock's seminal movie Psycho.
This is one of the best movies of 2012. With rich performances, a riveting and articulate screenplay, meticulous direction and enough grounded emotional intensity to keep your pulse pounding, Hitchcock grabs you by the lapels like a suspense classic by Hitch himself - a knockout from start to finish.
Hitchcock isn't ambitious or complicated. It's simple, does what it sets out to do, and gets out before anyone even thinks about checking the time. More movies should be made in its image.
As watching a movie about Alfred Hitchcock's Ideas and how he brought pyscho to the movie theatres and how he sees his ideas on the picture . Anthony hopkins is great at playing Hitchcock and so as Helen Mirren as the supporting , Jealous wife . This movie is amazing and a good movie .
Personally, I hate biographies, I watched because I wanted to know more about Alfred and his masterpieces, how he does it? I learned a lot about him, he was crazy about Psycho. As a movie it is entertaining and funny, and what makes it perfect, is the acting, Mirren and Hopkins are wonderful, with some great chemistry between them. I loved it is by far, one of the greatest biographies ever told, and it is one excellent movie.
Hitchcock is, well, fun. More fun than good, really. It feels weird to call it a disappointment, because it is entertaining. But you can't help feeling a little shortchanged on the deep-thinking front.
This film is more a love story about the marriage between Hitchcock (Anthony Hopkins) and his wife, Alma Reville (Helen Mirren), rather than a historically accurate backstage look at the making of this important movie in the Hitchcock filmography and the American psyche.
Hitchcock is a diverting but dramatically insipid account of how the Master of Suspense took his biggest gamble and delivered his greatest success with "Psycho."
A good bio that doesn't bore the hell out of you, not it is funny and keeps you interesting the whole watch and it is appropriate for all ages to get to know one of the greatest directors of all time.
I was in need of some light entertainment and that's exactly what I got. - great performances, especially Helen Mirren
- lots of visual clues taken from Hitchcock's pictures
- I liked that this film focuses more on the relationship between Hitchcock and Alma Reville, and tries to dive deeper into Hitch's psyche
- I didn't like how rushed and shallow the result was
All in all: entertaining but rushed and a too shallow, I am curious to read the book though
An interesting take on the creation of an American classic. Although, the film lacks a certain niche which made Hitchcock films so powerful. Nevertheless, Helen Mirren and Anthony Hopkins' performances are able to elevate the film to a higher level.
As lightweight and featherlike a it is, is still a good film. Anthony Hopkins does portray the master of suspense pretty well, and Helen Mirren is likable in her role. The film is smooth for the most part, but drags a little bit. It could've been better, yes, but it still was acceptable nonetheless.
Pourquoi un film sur Hitchcock au fait ? j'aurais plutôt visé Kubrick à leur place. Il s'agit d'un réalisateur très surestimé qui a toujours orbité autour d'une certaine médiocrité : le roi des collages, du tournage en studio, des éclairages à 3000 watts, des bavardages sans fin, d'une mise en scène lente et apathique avec ici et là quelques tics qui sont censés faire "peur"... la belle affaire !
Il n'était clairement pas doué et le film met en lumière assez bien cet aspect : si sa femme Alma n'intervenait pas sur tous les plans sur tous ses films, on en aurait jamais entendu parler. Sauf que même avec Alma, on ne peut pas dire que cela ait suffi à métamorphoser ses citrouilles en carrosses.
Mais qu'importe après tout s'il s'agit d'un film sur un tocard même si cela déteint forcément sur cette monographie bon enfant avec en premier lieu ce grimage très exagéré d'Anthony Hopkins qui surjoue ce clown plus faux que nature. Heureusement, Helen Mirren donne un peu de consistance à Alma, sa muse de tous les instants.
L'autre rare qualité qu'il faut reconnaître au film concerne la censure de l'époque qui nous apparaît complètement délirante dans sa paranoïa de tous les instants et en même temps adéquate lorsqu'on entend les spectateurs crier d'effroi dans la salle devant ce Psychose : les Américains étaient donc de vrais Bisounours ! c'est sans doute ça, le plus effrayant dans toute cette histoire ridicule.
Le film Hitchcock a ce côté dérisoire d'un temps désuet, inintéressant et compassé, certes gentillet mais incroyablement neuneu dans son ensemble. A moins d'être un fanatique invétéré du réalisateur bien sûr. Et encore.
Production Company
Fox Searchlight Pictures,
Cold Spring Pictures,
The Montecito Picture Company,
Dune Entertainment,
Ingenious Media,
Big Screen Productions,
Prana Studios