Seen for the first time in January 2013.
"Notorious" is definitely among Hitchcock's very best. It is a flawless movie. It's maybe Hitchcock's best shot movie, and Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, and Claude Rains are all amazing in it. It's heartbreaking to watch Grant and Bergman's characters, obviously in love with each other, treat each other shittily throughout the film. I constantly thought to myself that life is too short to be spending time treating people you love in a shitty way. It shares quite a bit with Casablanca, though it's somehow a colder more sterile film. I think the subtlety of the emotions Grant has to play are tough to pull off and he does it ably. But the real strength of the movie is the building of tension and suspense and the final dramatic pay-off. Grade A.
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