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Spellbound (1945)
At boundaries of imagination and dream
Spellbound is a fantastic movie and it is very difficult to describe it. When you see the movie you can easily be engulfed in a world where dream and reality melt together. The enthralling music of Rozsa underline very well romance and suspense, particularly when Gregory Peck holds a razor in the bedroom where Ingrid Bergman sleeps. The actors are very excellent, Gregory Peck is wonderful as a man trying to recover his memory and Ingrid Bergman is perfect as cold psychoanalyst.
The camera shots used by Alfred Hitchcock are very astonishing, the dream sequence and the murder of the little boy are breathtaking, at the end of the movie don't miss the fantastic scene with the "hand of the death". For people who enjoy good plot, characters and who like to open widely their imagination watching Spellbound will drive you at boundaries of dream.
Diabolique (1996)
Chechik's Diabolique diabolically useless
Hollywood version of the french masterpiece 'Les Diaboliques' is a disaster. Both actors and production are awful, the movie is full of cliches and Chechik tries to save something from the wreckage by a useless bloody end. There is no suspense or psychological tension in it, Clouzot's version was built on a subtle climate of anxiety and terror. Here there is only a bad mixing between buffoons characters (like the female inspector) and sentimental situations that could fit into a Reader's Digest dramatic story. This movie (can we really call it like that ?) is representative of the Hollywood (Holy-money) remake industry trying to make money on classics masterpieces (the remake of Psycho is another example). Don't even waste your time to see it, go directly to the original version of Henri-Georges Clouzot. 'Ce film est un vrai navet !'