Notorious (1946)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman
Rating: ****1/2
By,
Rahul Ojha
Sparks fly when you have the dashing Cary Grant as the egoistical lover and the vivacious but spoilt, Ingrid Bergman who in order to prove that she has mended her ways takes on a dangerous assignment of being undercover in Brazil for Cary's employer - the US Feds.
Ingrid Bergman as Ms Huberman with her tantalizing beauty is even more appealing than Ilsa in Casablanca and that, trust me is saying something! Cary, on the other hand, is restrained and intense as the jealous lover with all his passionate feelings bottled up. It is perhaps, Cary's best role and as far as suavity in a character is concerned, it comes next only to Humphrey Bogart's role in Casablanca. The dialogs are the crispiest and wittiest ever written and the exchange of flirtations between Cary and Ingrid at the lunch table and a later scene at Ingrid's hotel room where they have a tiff is a testimony to that.
And while I make repeated references to Casablanca, Notorious is not just a passionate romantic story. True thats the crux of it, but it is a great suspense thriller directed by the wizard, the one and only, Sir Alfred Hitchcock. There is a haunting eeriness in the second half of the movie which reminds one of 'Mandarlay' in Hitchcock's Rebecca. Perfectly executed, at the end of it you have only one word in your mind, the clichéd - MASTERPIECE!!
This one's got to be watched all cuddled up with that special someone on a sparkling romantic night!
Ingrid Bergman as Ms Huberman with her tantalizing beauty is even more appealing than Ilsa in Casablanca and that, trust me is saying something! Cary, on the other hand, is restrained and intense as the jealous lover with all his passionate feelings bottled up. It is perhaps, Cary's best role and as far as suavity in a character is concerned, it comes next only to Humphrey Bogart's role in Casablanca. The dialogs are the crispiest and wittiest ever written and the exchange of flirtations between Cary and Ingrid at the lunch table and a later scene at Ingrid's hotel room where they have a tiff is a testimony to that.
And while I make repeated references to Casablanca, Notorious is not just a passionate romantic story. True thats the crux of it, but it is a great suspense thriller directed by the wizard, the one and only, Sir Alfred Hitchcock. There is a haunting eeriness in the second half of the movie which reminds one of 'Mandarlay' in Hitchcock's Rebecca. Perfectly executed, at the end of it you have only one word in your mind, the clichéd - MASTERPIECE!!
This one's got to be watched all cuddled up with that special someone on a sparkling romantic night!
2 comments:
I want to c dis one now..
Yes you'll like this one. :) I'll give it to ya tomorrow
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