Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)
I watch this again and again. And everytime I forget how painful it is watching Cary Grant send Ingrid Bergman into a marriage with a Nazi in exile in Rio. Also Cary Grant's character's demands are too proud and cruel. He doesn't even want to know how she feels. He assumes the worst and punishes her for it again and again. That's what's great about Notorious. Their love is putrid and hideous but indestructable at the same time. But my favorite scene is the very end when Sebastian (Claude Rains) is sent back up the steps of his house where death awaits him by the Nazi agents. There's something really dark about the certainty that he's going to die and Grant's just like, "that's your headache." Yeah.
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