Something fun and complicated is going on with the super-phony Rio backdrops and the super-stagey we’re spies acting like lovers but we’re really lovers who can’t act like lovers. Add a little Cary Grant to that and . . .

Also, Ingrid Bergman rocks. She looks so tall in this movie. As if the sets aren’t really scaled to her. Or maybe its the men who aren’t scaled to her.

I love Cary Grant. I love Hitchcock. So it was a satisfying film, although North By Northwest is still tops.