Jean-Luc Godard on Alfred Hitchcock's "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (1956):
"This film by a supposedly misogynous director has as its sole mainspring— assuming one resolutely rejects metaphysics—feminine intuition. It is, like his preceding films, without self-indulgence, but the better displays its moments of grace and liberty.
Sometimes, like the little boy held prisoner in the embassy who hears his mother’s voice as she sings in the salon, we are touched in the work of this caustic and brilliant man by a grace which may only come to us in snatches from afar, but which minds more immediately lyrical are incapable of dispensing with such delicacy.
Let us love Hitchcock when, weary of passing simply for a master of taut style, he takes us the longest way around"
("Godard on Godard", 1972)
P.S: On this day, 70 years ago, "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (1956) premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, France.