NOTORIOUS (1946) **1/2 Over-rated Hollywood icons (Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman) in an over-rated Hitchcock film, which isn't to say that it's either bad or boring. Neither much, and very racy for puritanical mid-century America. It's perplexing, of course, how any trained intelligence agent would regularly make the errors of Grant, but Bergman's character is even more elusive to those who pay much attention. I mean, the Americans are successfully convincing her to fuck Claude Rains and the fascists are poisoning her. Which is worse is, like most elevated questions, debateable, but why would the girl maintain any interest whatsoever in politics? Especially when she's so good at drinking. Leopoldine Konstantin adds Teutonic flash, and therein perhaps lies the key to so much of Freud's mommy business, though that's not the key that most critics go on about. Which shows what an easily misled lot they are.
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