The Girl is a TV movie about the three year working
relationship between Alfred Hitchcock (Toby Jones) and his two time leading
lady Tippi Hedren (Sienna Miller) star of TheBirds and Marnie. The plot, which
has been widely criticised by people who knew the great Director, focuses on
his attraction towards his starlet and her rebuff of his advances. Much like a
great Hitchcock thriller the film takes a dark turn as Hitch forces Hedren to
go through arduous scenes over and over again and puts her in compromising
positions sexually.
I’m a fairly new convert to Hitchcock having seen seven of
his films in the last year, all for the first time. The Birds is one of the few Hitchcock movies I had seen before I
began blogging but not for a long time. It’s been on my list to watch for a few
months but I hadn’t got around to it yet and this put me in a quandary; what to
watch first? I decided to watch The Girl
before re-watching The Birds but now
I’m slightly fearful that its portrayal of the Director may put me off the film
and perhaps Hitchcock in general.
