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06 May 2026 Monte-Carlo (Monaco)
Chantage (1929) (original title Blackmail)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo conducted by Frank Strobel - Salle Garnier – Opéra de Monte-Carlo
Program Info: Neil Brand, orchestrated by Timothy Brock (2008) - Blackmail Alfred Hitchcock (UK 1929)
Alice White is engaged to a young Scotland Yard inspector. For fun and out of coquetry, she agrees to follow a painter to his home after he asks her to be his model. But the painter has other, less avowable intentions. She escapes her attacker by stabbing him with a bread knife she finds handy. After quickly covering up the evidence, she flees, but in her haste, forgets one of her gloves behind.
" Blackmail […] is a masterful piece of cinema. To his now famous visual prowess, Hitchcock adds an absolutely astonishing intelligence with sound. He drives his story […] at breakneck speed, punctuating it with astonishing ellipses and visual punches (shocking images and dizzying camera movements with psychological value) and by systematically using the soundtrack as a counterpoint to the image. Moreover, we already find in Blackmail the theme of the transfer of murder […] which will become one of the constants of Hitchcock's work." Marcel Martin, Cinema No. 59, August-September 1961, p. 61
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