City of Toronto All Events http://ift.tt/12mXSbe Starring: Ivor Novello, Isabel Jeans Downhill is own of the darkest of Hitchcock's early films & follows the fall from grace of Roddy, a star athlete & student after a false accusation. It features a succession of predatory & manipulative female characters that torment Roddy throughout his life. At each stage, Roddy falls further and further until he winds up in a shoddy Paris nightclub being paid to dance with rich elderly women. One could even include him in the lineage of Hitchcock blondes — imperiled and vulnerable and prey to the camera's fetishistic gaze. Downhill is a deceptively rich and often elegant work. This screening will utilize the recorded soundtrack by British composer Shlomo.
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