Capo
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Post by Capo on Jul 22, 2007 22:03:29 GMT
I Confess Alfred Hitchcock 1953 USA A Catholic priest in smalltown Quebec is suspected of murder because he refuses to give up the real killer, who confessed in his booth to doing the deed. Finely characterised, superbly constructed, well acted. Only the final quarter lets it down - there's something about court cases which seems to zap all pace, momentum and credibility out of a narrative, and this one injects a certain cheapness to the proceedings. It tends to make a film out of nothing, really, complicating an otherwise surefire tragedy (nobody doubts that Clift would have let himself be hanged in order to maintain his Catholic professionalism) with the introduction of a witness, one who happens to be in the thick of it because she is a love interest, and whose revelation midway through makes the seriousness and intimacy of the script all the more dramatic.
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