Hitchcock – review

I was expecting something rather more…sordid than Hitchcock. The BBC/HBO film The Girl, about director Alfred Hitchcock’s obsession with star of The Birds Tippi Hedren is a dark examination of a depressed, unsatisfied man and his fixation with glamour. As such I assumed Sacha Gervasi‘s Hitchcock, the story of the making of legendary horror Psycho (1960) would approach the man in a similar way. In actuality Hitchcock is a rather bright and breezy affair that isn’t about the director himself, more the troubles of getting the iconic project off the ground.