Title: Embarrassing
Product review: Hitchcock is of course one of the great directors of moviemaking, but Marnie is just embarrassing. Nothing works, the direction is uninspired and mechanical. Tippi Hedren is unbearable. Hitchcock had a crush on her, which explains her participation. The formal old-hat textbook-psychology, that worked so well in Psycho and Vertigo, makes you laugh out loud, when Sean Connery plays mindgames with Marnie. His fascination with the troubled woman is admittedly fascinating. He's a former zoologist, set on taming the shrew, but this kind of strange love is depicted far better in Vertigo. Hitchcock is obviously tired. Instead of throwing bewildered seagulls on his beloved star, he just throws her career down the drain with this one.
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