A film about filmmaking

Rating: 8/10 (27 July 2019)

This movie can be appreciated for any number of things about it. For me, two things come to mind. The first is the restaurant scene in the beginning. The elaborate use of red and green. The second is the flashback to the explanation of the murder. It's remarkable for the economy, it's just a few brief scenes.
The power of a director is where he can fill in the gaps between the script and the screen. And why I think this is the most personal of the Hitchcock movies is because this is a movie about making movies. Scottie "directs" Judy to become the woman he was obsessed with so she can be the star of his movie. The film is dreamlike, artificially constructed with many backscreen projections and cinematic artifices. It's entirely possible this film could be a love letter to one of the actresses Hitchcock directed previously.