Full-frontal Window

Rating: 10/10 (17 March 2019)

One reviewer has pointed out that anyone who wanted to spy on his neighbours would surely prevent them from spying back on him. In fact everyone in this courtyard seems to perform in full exposure --- although there are one or two occasional exceptions. It is explained it is because the weather was very hot.
The fan-like structure of this movie is creative. The central theme, played out between Stewart and Kelly, concerns the relationship between the sexes. Every playlet observed through the window, offers an ingenious courtyard commentary on the variety of these relationships, from celibate solitude, via frantic partying, through loneliness, newly-weds and long-term marriage, to marital murder. The little dog seems to take the place of a kid; kids being otherwise relegated to the half-seen street at the back.
The dog, and its fate, is one of the two mysteries in the plot. What was the point of killing the little dog ? Why did murderer Burr bury something in a flower-bed ? What was it ? Did I miss something ? Seems completely pointless. He got rid of everything else by other means, simply enough. The other mystery which no-one seems to mention, concerns the curious black-clad female figure at one point seen emerging with Burr from his flat. Who was that ? Did I miss something ? Brilliant film, though. I like Grace Kelly. She is civilised because she says either, not eether.