| RATING: | 80% |
| FORMAT: | Cinema |
Doppelgänger
Above-average Alfred Hitchcock homage from the Hitchcock-obsessed Brian De Palma; stealing ideas from Rear Window, Dial M for Murder and even Debbie does Dallas to strangely-resonant effect.
The suspense is well-handled and ably-supported by an admittedly sub-Bernard Herrmann musical score. Along with the characterization and careful - albeit somewhat unbelievable - plotting and its elaborate set-pieces. The emotional realism even extends to using the kind of shoddy back-projection for which Hitchcock was famed.
This is the story of a man obsessed with a beautiful woman who thus fails to see the wood for the trees - blinded by her good looks. As with all the best thrillers, nothing is what it seems, except the hero’s resulting claustrophobia - and our own.
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