Marnie (1964)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 1964
	Director: Alfred Hitchcock (Torn Curtain, Psycho)
	Actors: Tippi Hedren (The Birds), Sean Connery (Highlander), Martin Gabel
	Country: USA
	Genre: Polar, Romance
	Conditions of visioning: 11.02.2015, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: Marnie Edgerd (Hedren) is a succesful thief in the world of insurance companies, until she gets noticed by Mark Rutland (Connery).
Review: The recent review of Sabotage reminded me that I have yet to finish watching the movies from the nice Hitchcock Blu-ray boxset I bought. But I fear that the ones left are not the best. Indeed this 50 years old Marnie looks very good for its age (like all movies in that boxset) and the cinematography is beautiful (the way the scenes are shot), as are the editing and the actors direction. But, like I already commented about some of the Master's films (see Vertigo, Topaz or The Man who knew too Much), a rather simple story takes a bit too much time to develop, until the conclusion quickly wrapped. I thought that the trend for 2-hours long movies started in the years 2000, but it seems Alfred had anticipated that, and I found Marnie 30 minutes too long. Not that I was really bored but not interested either. Hedren and Connery show that they are good actors during interminable dialog scenes, but in the end the stakes didn't seem to justify the rest of the story. And the advertised "Sex Mystery" only refers to the odd situation of that man marrying that (decent) girl and using his knowledge of her activities as leverage to get what he want (sex, although it is never mentioned explicitly and he never gets it), which I guess could have been a disturbing concept in the 60's. A brave attempts at showing something different, but unfortunately not very interesting to watch nowadays.
Rating: 4 /10