His characters try to hide their sins and weaknesses (alcoholism, adultery, drug-addiction, murder) from the world and from themselves. ‘I am full of fears,’ he said. Is the Catholicism of his upbringing the key to understanding the films of Alfred Hitchcock?
16 August 2017, The Tablet
Hitchcock in the confessional: is the British director's Catholic upbringing the key to his films?
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