The Seal of Confession

The movie I Confess is first another Hitchcock film about betrayal friendship and confidence. In the first scene, we are shown a murder, and the shadow of the killer running away. This last one, Keller, feel the need to confess what he has done, so tell his murder to Father Logan. But when Father Logan is falsely accuse of the murder, everything goes bad because a priest may never allude thereafter even to the penitent himself what he was once told. In church canons, this is called the "seal of confession". Throughout the movie, Father Logan is trying to prove that he didn't commit the murder without saying what he learned from the confession. So whether he doesn’t say what he knows and goes to jail, or he tell it and goes to hell

Shot in Québec during the quiet revolution, the theme is still mainly about the exchange of guilt, as in Stranger on a Train, released in 1951, two years before I Confess. The performance of Montgomery Clift in the leading role of Father Logan is well done, especially compare to the one of Anne Baxter in the role of his former girlfriend, before he became a priest. She is putting really too much emotion in her characters, which make her fall in the archetype of the stupid blond girl.

This movie is a good one, but not compare to others Hitchcock have done as Vertigo or Psycho, but still a must see.