Da "Complotto di famiglia" (A. Hitchcock, 1976) I had never seen the last Hitchcock before. Can I say it’s a gem of a film? Forget about being pulled apart, here the curtain closing is held up beautifully, after over fifty films spread across six, yes six decades of career. I love this 70s Hitch, with a style that blends more modern openings and solutions from an older cinema, understandable in a director from a completely different generation (by 1976, the car sequences with rear projections already have the "vintage" label; you can't even say they have aged poorly). "Frenzy" was a great film, and this one follows closely, fresh and fun, and although Hitch died with in mind the project of what could have been his first film in the 80s, this really tastes of farewell: a summary of hitchcockianism, all his trademarks, many explicit or less explicit nods to his other films, humor at full blast, the final wink at the audience through the interposed person of Barbara Harris. And then a cast devoid of stars but filled with talented actors, all perfectly cast, from the new generation yet all with considerable experience and behind them important (very important) titles of new American cinema (three out of four had already been Altman faces, Harris and Karen Black in "Nashville" and Devane in "McCabe & Mrs. Miller", just two of the greatest new Hollywood masterpieces, mere trifles...), Dern is a great actor. Unforgettable is Devane's smirk.