Hitchcockesque

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Reminiscent of the style of Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980), British filmmaker and producer; suspenseful; of the nature of a psychological thriller.

    "Even the original score [of Volver] by Almodóvar's close collaborator Alberto Iglesias, recently Oscar-nominated for The Constant Gardener (Fernando Meirelles, 2005), is discreet and unshowy. Deftly echoing Almodóvar's frequent changes in register, Iglesias offers Hitchcockesque strings for the thriller elements (a bloody murder) and tender harp chords for the supernatural apparitions (the moving Maura)."

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"Even the original score [of Volver] by Almodóvar's close collaborator Alberto Iglesias, recently Oscar-nominated for The Constant Gardener (Fernando Meirelles, 2005), is discreet and unshowy. Deftly echoing Almodóvar's frequent changes in register, Iglesias offers Hitchcockesque strings for the thriller elements (a bloody murder) and tender harp chords for the supernatural apparitions (the moving Maura)."

Etymology

From Hitchcock + -esque.

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