To Catch A Thief (2007)

To catch some rays, more like. Alfred Hitchcock’s follow up to Rear Window plays like a well-earned break, as historian and filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich points out in his languid but lovingly detailed commentary. Thief opens on a picture in a travel-agency window and cuts to the French Riviera, using the then-young arts of VistaVision and helicopter shooting to amplify the setting’s seductions. It frolics, it flirts. It’s Hitch on hols and heaps of fun.

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