Starting
this month, The Baton Rouge Film Club is hosting a new series called Essential
Hitchcock, screening the best of the best from director Alfred Hitchcock. Adults
can come to the Bluebonnet Regional Branch at 6:15 p.m. Monday, January 14th,
to watch the spy-thriller film Notorious.
Ingrid Bergman plays Alicia, an alluring
woman with a checkered past recruited by Devlin (Cary Grant), a suave,
mysterious intelligence agent, to spy for the U.S. Only after she has fallen
for Devlin does she learn that her mission is to seduce a Nazi industrialist
(Claude Rains) hiding out in South America. Coupling inventive cinematography
with brilliantly subtle turns from his mesmerizing leads, Hitchcock
orchestrates an anguished romance shot through with deception and moral
ambiguity.