Alfred Hitchcock's Bon Voyage & Aventure Malgache

On connaît Hitchcock pour ses grands classiques en matière de thriller et de suspens. On connaît moins deux courts métrages en français, qui sont restés longtemps dans l'ombre, pourvus à l'oubli, mais que des fans ont remis au grand jour: Bon voyage et Aventure Malgache. Ils ont été tournés en 1944.

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The two rarely screened works were actually official productions of the British Ministry of Information, designed as tributes to the Resistance movement against the occupying Nazi forces in France. Hitchcock was paid a token fee, but they were really a labor of love for him. Despite that, Bon Voyage received limited play in France and Aventure Malgache was shelved completely by the Brits. Neither movie played in America. Why? Bon Voyage concerns a Royal Air Force gunner whose escape from a German prison is aided by a fellow fugitive he has only just met, and by a succession of Resistance workers who help him get out of the country. Interrogated back in London, the officer discovers he was actually an unwitting dupe whose flight helped the Germans locate and destroy key links in the underground organization.

Equally bleak, Aventure Malgache is a complex, swiftly paced remembrance by a French actor about the duplicity of Vichy collaborators in French-controlled Madagascar. The narrator, making himself up to play his own life in a staged version of past events he describes, was imprisoned by the Vichy government for his Resistance tactics. In essence, the film is about dissension among the French people when it comes to dealing with the Germans. It's a little hard to imagine why Hitchcock would have thought these two morally shaded stories would bolster freedom-fighting spirits. But they each have elements that resonate deliciously with his career-long pet obsessions and themes.

Avec : John Blythe
Réalisateur : Alfred Hitchcock
Date de parution du DVD : 13 novembre 1998
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