Marnie (1964)
Genre: Thriller / Drama
Duration: 130 minuten
Alternative title: Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie
Country:
United States
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery and Diane Baker
IMDb score:
7,1 (57.432)
Releasedate: 17 July 1964
Marnie plot
"Only Alfred Hitchcock could have created so suspenseful a sex mystery!"
The kleptomaniac Marnie applies for a job at Rutland & Co. Mark immediately recognizes her as the woman who stole ten thousand dollars from a business associate's safe deposit box. However, he is attracted to her and hires her. Marnie waits patiently, but when the ideal moment presents itself, she promptly empties Rutland's safe and disappears to her remote ranch. But Mark has followed her and asks for his money back.
Actors and actresses
Marnie Edgar
Mark Rutland
Sidney Strutt
Lil Mainwaring
Bernice Edgar
Cousin Bob
Man at Track
Mr. Rutland
First Detective
Rita
Reviews & comments
yeyo
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A scandalously underrated and very intriguing Hitch. Don't expect a thrilling thriller about 'murder must foul', Marnie is more of a 'gender mystery'.
Characteristic of his time (the second feminist wave of the 1960s) the main character is a free-spirited woman. She is not married, but still manages to support her mother. It is then insinuated in a Freudian and above all rather dubious way that Marnie is pathologically frigid and sexually frustrated, ie needs a strong male figure in her life. Sean Connery can of course fulfill that role perfectly and plays the prototype of a patriarch: protective and dominant.
Yet this is not merely a misogynistic picture. As always with Hitchcock, there is a lot of ambiguity involved: Connery's character may come across as sympathetic and helpful, his interest in Marnie (vulnerable, mysterious kleptomaniac) and the power games he plays with her can certainly be called perverse. The cinematic approach of the character Marnie is also very voyeuristic, she is constantly portrayed as a kind of enigmatic lust object.
The film creates a wonderful contrast between jovial (the theme music, the colorful interpretation) and sinister. Even when the mystery is solved at the end and Marnie is 'cured', I think there's a kind of menacing air left behind. Very suggestive.
The mise-en-scene is also clearly expressionistic. This is apparent from the stylized acting, the painted theatrical sets and the use of rear projection.
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IH88
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“You Freud, me Jane?”
This is another true Hitchcock movie. Blonde women, a dubious mother role, child trauma, an obsessive man/woman relationship, crime, the dolly zoom, the happy ending, etc. Marnie may be one of Hitchcock's later films, but he shows that he hasn't forgotten it yet. Connery, Hedren, Diane Baker and Louise Latham are all on a roll, and the script is ingenious too. As a viewer you have no idea where the story is going, from a light-hearted heist film in the beginning to a psychological drama in the last part. Marnie often misleads you. Classic Hitchcock.
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Film Pegasus (moderator films)
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This film feels like the moment when Hitchcock is confronted by a new generation. I don't know why the man asked Tippi Hedren again. It's not that both had a great bond. On the contrary! Sean Connery is doing quite well. A man with more experience at the time than you might expect, but of a different style than Hitchcock. It was a striking anecdote that he wanted to make a film alongside the Bond films and outside the same studio and would like to play in a Hitchcock film. He asked for the script of the film and everyone was shocked, because you don't do that with Hitchcock! Cary Grant never asked for a script! To which Connery announced that he was not Cary Grant...
The story is interesting. A psychological thriller, but the film gets off to a late start, because the right tone is not found. Again Hedren who is not the best actress. Connery does have the charisma and talent for these kinds of films, but he still lacks the experience to take his place more against Hitchcock. He does make up for a lot of the movie though. The intro also lasts quite long, it only becomes interesting once the viewer realizes that Marnie carries a secret with her. And the beginning of the awkward relationship between Marnie and Mark.
The movie gets better towards the end. The actors also feel better in their own skin, especially because the story and the changed atmosphere feel more correct and the actors seem to be more in place. It just goes to show that the film is a bit incoherent in atmosphere and the beginning is too long. Too bad, because here had lived more.
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