Famous for its long takes, Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope is a blackly funny exercise in suspense, too.
Ryan takes a look back…
Murder can be art, too.
Then, Brandon and Phillip do what any sensible pair of murderers would do: they throw a party.
Much has been written about Hitchcocks use of long takes and sparing use of editing inRope.
As the camera roves around the grim party, the audience becomes an invisible gatecrasher.
Admittedly, not everything in Hitchcocks experiment works perfectly.
In Hitchcocks hands, murder really can be art, too.
