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  Review by Willow Maclay ★★★★★ 4

  Marnie bleeds like an open wound, but you cannot die from this injury. The blood keeps spilling and spilling until it becomes the background of your life and informs your own existence. There's no patching up, moving on and healing so you dig and dig into your own flesh until you're more wound than person and any small prick can cause the blood to overflow once more. Marnie has never known another feeling her entire life.

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  Review by josh lewis ★★★★★ 1

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  holy fuck! maybe the most downright repulsive movie hitchcock made, in large part because he didn't see it that way. layers of facade covering up trauma until the facade itself becomes the trauma. im not too often shocked by movies much anymore (especially ones operating in classical styles such as this) but the rape scene followed by suicide attempt here very much disturbed me.

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  Review by Willow Maclay ★★★★★ 9

  "The legacy of Alfred Hitchcock is that he is a master of control; a director so in tune with suspense, time and pacing that he could make audiences suffer before unleashing a grand epiphany which made each and every person come back asking for more. This was true even in his previous film starring Tippi Hedren, The Birds. That movie was a box office smash with many of its images and isolated scenes, like the one of crows gathering on a power line, becoming iconic over time. Marnie is fascinating, because Hitchcock seems to have no control here. He's beholden to his worst curiosities and sexual perversions, and there's a moral unsureness about how to film characters like Rutland, who…

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  Review by Adam Friedland 1

  Sean Connery uses zoology to save a hoe

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  Review by Slig001 ★★★★

  Marnie is something of the black sheep of Alfred Hitchcock's filmography - a polarising film that largelly forsakes suspense in favour of a psychological character portrait. Hitchcock expertly sets the situation in the opening scenes. A businessman has been robbed by a good looking woman he hired without references; meanwhile a good looking woman (Tippi Hedren) changes her appearance in a beautifully composed wordless sequence, before a visit to her mother suggests a troubled relationship. The main thrust of the film focuses on the unorthodox romance between Marnie and Sean Connery's sympathetic businessman. He can see she's traumatised and takes it upon himself to fix her, while she resists his advances. There's so much going on here besides. Themes of…

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★★★ 1

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  "You Freud, me Jane?"

  Love bleeds red. Hitchcock's ultimate cat-call of sexual perversion.

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  Review by Jake Cole ★★★★★ 1

  Hitchcock at long last shakes completely loose of his own tightly modulated repression, his style splintering into its most abstract expression and letting slip his truly twisted attitudes on sex. No other Hitchcock cameo is as charged as the one that comes near the top of this, where he emerges from a hotel room simply to stare at Hedren walking down a hallway before turning to the camera and giving a split-second flinch of embarrassment, like a man caught touching himself in a porno theater. The entire film is one great recoil from the shame of self-recognition, a summarizing work that ties together everything from the director's German apprenticeship during the Expressionist era to his stripped-down TV work to the…

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  Review by theriverjordan ★★★★½ 35

  The masculine imposition of a movie’s director meets the unstoppable spirit of its lead actress in “Marnie.” 

  Hitchcock’s second collaboration with “Birds” star Tippi Hedren, who claimed that Alfred Hitchcock sexually assaulted her during both productions, “Marnie” is a psychological battleground of wills on and off screen. 

  It cannot be assumed that Hitchcock ever seriously would have been able to court then-Princess Grace (Kelly) to return to Hollywood for the lead part of Marnie. Beyond being just a scheming sociopath of a character, she is also subjected to a rape scene that Hitchcock, true to form, filmed with all the lustful eroticism of his murders. 

  It’s more plausible to read the director’s claims to be wooing the Princess for the…

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  Review by ✨Angelica Jade Bastién🔮 ★★★★ 3

  Every come-on Sean Connery says sounds like a threat; every threat Sean Connery says sounds like a come-on. A vivid film in which Connery is the perfect vessel for Hitchcock’s misogyny and his thoughts on his own misogyny. Connery’s charm always teetered on the edge of gilded danger which is used with acute prowess here. Tippi Hedren’s performance proves to an intriguing portrayal of buried traumas — swimming between stark mania and prim repression. There’s something stilted about her performance but it works with the ragged psychology of the character.

  For the men in the film — primarily and especially Connery’s ultra-rich, controlling, violent, lustful Mark — Woman is danger, intrigue, sin. And I say “Woman” because the women in…

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  Review by pd187 ★★★★★ 2

  tippi hedren plays a baltimore crip who wilds out whenever she sees the color red in this underrated masterpiece from alfred hitchcocc

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  Review by Carlos Valladares 1

  Marnie makes me feel incredibly unclean when I finish it. Dig this: a brutalized woman, brutalized when she was young, in order to overcome her present-day brutalization, must be brutalized by a brutal man (Sean Connery), so that she can remember the time she assisted in brutalizing a man brutalizing her mother. Brutal, no? It's a paradox that makes my skin crawl, and yet it is made more affective by Hitchcock's ever-scrutinizing camera. Every part of star Tippi Hedren's body is sliced up and presented to us as though she were a turkey on a silver platter. We see her from behind (in a darkened wig), then her hands fumbling with a key, then her feet pushing the key into…

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  Review by CinemaCl🎃wn ★★½ 9

  Throughout his decades-spanning career, Alfred Hitchcock gave us some of the finest thrillers in cinema that have wildly entertained critics & viewers alike, but Marnie is unfortunately not one of them. It's a tad overlong with a bit messy plot for a psychological thriller & although it has its little moments, it ultimately remains a disappointing experience for the most part.

  Marnie tells the story of the troubled titular character who is a habitual thief & liar and has some serious psychological problems. After she is caught by her boss while trying to steal from her latest place of employment, he forces her to marry him despite her uneasy behaviour and, after finding out about her traumatic past, helps her to confront & resolve…