Notorious

Monday, February 28th, 2005

I just watched Hitchcock’s Notorious for the first time. It stars Ingrid Bergman as a “notorious woman of affairs” (a woman who, shudder, drinks and sleeps around) and Cary Grant as an “adventurous man of the world” (a spy). Overall, certainly a good movie, but a few things stood out to me:

Despite the fact that Bergman’s character is sent to infiltrate a German spy ring in Brazil, there was no German spoken, next to no Portuguese (just “dois martinis” to the waiter, and “senhor” and “senhora” to locals), and one surprisingly long French monologue (in a party scene).

The kissing scenes seemed really, really awkward and forced.

Oh, and I missed Hitch’s cameo during the party scene.

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