7.20.2009

Spellbound



When Salvador Dali and Alfred Hitchcock weren't busy "accidentally" bumping into Ingrid Bergman on set (I mean, I just assume..) they managed to collaborate on this wonderful nightmare sequence from Hitchcock's film Spellbound.

Oh, and by "collaborate" I mean "probably fought viciously".

This is a great psychological thriller and really a quite beautiful love story starring Gregory Peck and the formerly mentioned Ingrid Bergman. It may be 1945, but the deliciously apprehensive sexual tension between the two actors still manages to be hotter than Aphrodite's lingerie drawer. Bergman plays a shrink trying pointlessly to reign in her feelings for Peck's tortured mystery man- who may either be a total fucking psycho or quite dreamy. It's hard to tell. There are smatterings of unintentionally funny, glib pseudo-psychology, but all is forgiven thanks in part to the performances and this odd interval orchestrated by the eccentric surrealist artist.
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