Hitchcock/Truffaut on 35mm
Friday, December 18 | 8 p.m.
When a beautiful, psychologically fragile kleptomaniac, Marnie Edgar (Tippi Hedren), catches the eye of brooding publishing magnate, Mark Rutland (Sean Connery), he’s willing to do whatever it takes to possess her. Smitten and fascinated in equal measure, Mark—a self-styled expert in animal behavior—resolves to unlock the traumatic secret that fuels Marnie’s phobias and compulsions, hoping to tame her and win her love in the process. A genre-bending, boundary-pushing “sex mystery” that still retains a whiff of transgression, Marnie weds an audacious pulp narrative with a strikingly artificial style in what is perhaps the most extreme expression of Hitchcock’s singular artistic vision. Exerting total, virtuosic control over camera movement and composition, Hitchcock signals Marnie’s fractured subjectivity through a richly expressionistic use of color.
Director Alfred Hitchcock 1964 USA 130 minutes PG 35mm
