“The ghost of Alfred Hitchcock was undeniably present during the making of this film,” says a note in the closing credits of Alexandre O. Philippe ’s latest artisanal documentary . For once, though, the film’s subject has nothing but affection for the late master of suspense, clearly having fared better than Tippi Hedren did in the pantheon of Hitchcock blondes. Indeed, the 92-year-old sees their one and only collaboration — on 1958’s celebrated thriller Vertigo — as the highlight of her movie career, which opened with a bang and ended with a slow fade after she willfully absented herself from Hollywood (she now lives in Oregon).

Philippe tells that story in a roundabout way; like some of his previous films ( Chain Reaction , Lynch/Oz or Memory: The Origins of Alien ), K

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