A Hitchcock masterpiece

Rating: 8/10 (11 March 2011)

The uncertainty is what makes this film amazingly suspenseful. For about the first half of the film, we really do not know whether or not Jimmy Stewart's character has discovered that his neighbor has committed murder or is just going nuts from being stuck in his tiny apartment. At a certain point the movie shifts, it becomes clear that Stewart is on to something, but what exactly he has discovered and what he can prove still remain a central question until nearly the very end of the movie.
Then you have Hitchcock's amazing camera-work, allowing us to see into the tiny worlds that populate the apartment across the way, each with a little drama going on inside. The performances by Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly are fantastic.
This is perhaps the most Hitchcock of Hitchcock films. Highly recommended.