Álex E Hejre

12 lessons about storytelling by Alfred Hitchcock

Right now, if you think about Alfred Hitchcock, you think about one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. It was not always this way. In the sixties, critics did not credit Hitchcock as a serious filmmaker. For them, he was only an entertainer. Recognition came from France. A group of young critics, and filmmakers, became his fierce supporters. This group included Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut, two of the emblems of Nouvelle Vague and the founders of Cahiers du Cinéma.