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Spellbound (1945)

Mystery | 111 minutes
3,53 402 votes

Genre: Mystery / Romance

Duration: 111 minuten

Alternative title: Obsessie

Country: United States

Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock

Stars: Gregory Peck, Ingrid Bergman and Michael Chekhov

IMDb score: 7,5 (54.766)

Releasedate: 8 November 1945

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Spellbound plot

"This is love! Complete...reckless...violent!"

The head of the Green Manors mental institution Dr. Murchison retires to make way for famed psychiatrist Dr. Edwards. dr. Edwards arrives and immediately falls in love with the beautiful Dr. Constance Petersen. However, it quickly becomes apparent that Dr. Edwardes actually suffers from amnesia. He is on the run with Constance trying to remedy his condition. What's up with the real Dr. Edwards happened?

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IH88

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“Good night and sweet dreams... which we'll analyze at breakfast.”

A real Hitchcock movie. Spellbound is about psychoanalysis and murder, but also turns into a love story as the film progresses. But then a love story as only Hitchcock can tell. Dark, tragic but also hopeful, the icy Bergman and the struggling Peck are strong together. Bergman, in particular, is on a roll (perhaps her best role). The story of psychoanalysis was groundbreaking for its time, and Hitchcock has delivered a great film on the subject with Spellbound. And Bergman shows once again why she is one of my favorite actresses.

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Dievegge

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With Spellbound Hitchcock made his first real psychological thriller. Traditionally, in a crime story, someone is often wrongly suspected, but here it is the hero himself who thinks he has committed a crime. Theories about guilt complex, repression and amnesia are above all a starting point for an exciting intrigue that partly takes place in the protagonist's head. It is not entirely serious and realistic; there are also jokes about psychoanalysis.

Gregory Peck plays a lead character with a flaw. Ingrid Bergman is the therapist who helps him to dig into the dark caverns of his psyche through associations and dream analyses. There is something comforting and encouraging about her soft voice. Their kisses last up to five seconds, so as not to be censored. There is a contradiction between two secondary characters. The hotel detective brags about his prowess, but is taken for a ride. The elderly mentor keeps his wits about him, but turns out to see through their pretexts. Leo G. Carroll has a great character head.

Dalí's dream scenes bear a resemblance to his own paintings and to Buñuel's surrealism. Repressed memories are distorted. A steering wheel becomes a twisted wheel (wheel in English). The general style is in line with the noir period, with shadows, reflections and smoke. Opening doors symbolize memory. Two scenes use false perspective. The glass of milk with the poison is huge, as are the revolver and the fake hand shortly before the end.

Miklós Rózsa's music is built around two themes: the lyrical love theme with violins and the mysterious theme of the guilt complex. For the latter, the theremin is used, an early electronic instrument that sounds a bit like a musical saw.

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mrklm

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The first film about psychoanalysis was written by experience expert Ben Hecht, superbly directed by Alfred Hitchcock and ideally cast Bergman in the lead role. But Gregory Peck is not convincing as the new leader of a psychiatric institution who himself is struggling with an as yet unexplained trauma and the beautiful Oscar-winning score by Miklós Rósza is used too much and ruins the most dramatic scenes. The ski scene is one of the most awkward moments in the Hitchcock canon. There is much to admire, but the negatives are too great to speak of a good film.

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