Friday 10 August 2007, 19.00
and Friday 7 September 2007, 19.00

Psychoanalysis and Freudian thought enjoyed a substantial vogue in 1940s Hollywood, and Spellbound was the first major motion picture to focus on the subject. Nominated for an Academy Award, and starring Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck, Hitchcock’s oedipal romantic thriller is set in a psychiatric hospital and famously features a trippy dream sequence designed by Salvador Dalí. In a blatant reference to Un Chien andalou, an oversized pair of scissors cuts through an eye painted on a curtain, heightening the Freudian division between physical and psychic states.

Alfred Hitchcock, USA 1946, 111 min

 

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended

    

This event is related to the Dalí at Tate Modern exhibition