Marnie (1964) Reviews

Beautifully filmed and scored, and the acting was better than I anticipated. Hitchcock biographers have blamed some of the film's lesser moments to his anger at Tippi Hedren's rebuffing his advances; ironically, those touches are now elevated to artform by critics. I found the documentary very informative -- I always felt like Sean Connery's character was too much like a therapist, for example. But whatever shortcomings there are with respect to character motivation are FAR overshadowed by brilliant, memorable sequences -- the almost split screen in the office with the cleaning lady, the hunt, the party with the surprise guest. I put this up with some of Hitchcock's better efforts. It is perhaps not as well appreciated because it deals with characters more deeply than with a story ("Vertigo" vesus "Psycho").
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Another masterpiece starring Sean Connery and Tippie Hedren. Personally, I love watching his productions to watch for the director's personal appearance as a side character in every film he directed. A bit on the romantic side than most of his titles,this movie explores a woman's unending impulse to burglarize her bosses' vaults and why she does what she does, and so on.
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Marnie compares very well with "today's" movies -- despite being from the 60's. It has a classic feel, but with a steady pace, no dull moments & great performances by Hedren & Connery. It's very cool that the DVD bonuses contains 60 minutes of discussion about this film, interviewing most major players years later. The high quality audio & video (on both the movie & bonuses) insures that this movie will live on forever.
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