Review of Spellbound (1945) by Philip French for The Observer (UK) — 11 Aug 1996
The gaudy Freudianism of this 1945 Hitchcock film, backed by a dream sequence designed by Salvador Dalí and an overexcited score by Miklós Rósza, can make it hard to take, but beneath the facile trappings there is an intriguing Hitchcockian study of role reversal, with doctors and patients, men and women, mothers and sons inverting their assigned relationships with compelling, subversive results.
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This review of Spellbound (1945) was written by Philip French and published by The Observer (UK) on 11 Aug 1996.
Spellbound has generally received very positive reviews.
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