EZIO BOSSO

The first real Hitchcock movie (1926) with a new score for string quartet and keyboards. A romantic thriller, a metaphor on prejudice culminating in the expressive and tense interpretation of this contemporary Italian composer, who has gained international recognition with his film scores for Gabriele Salvatores (Oscar 1996).

It is very unusual to see a mute Hitchcock and, as Ezio Bosso says “it is a film full of sounds (...) that make the friction of The Lodger more immediate and accessible for a contemporary public. “

The magnificent photography transports the humour of the film. The sound of the strings, rich and disturbing, increases the anxiety, giving voice to the soul of the characters, while the theme of the murder is interpreted by Ezio Bosso on the keyboard like a carillon.

"Beginning with a simple plot I have always been animated by the desire to present my ideas for the first time in a purely visual form. I shot fifteen minutes of a late winter evening in London. It is five twenty and the first shot of the film is the face of a blond girl who is screaming. ... At this point there is a break, and I pass to a luminous sign which displays publicity for a music magazine. The sign reflects on the water. The girl from before has drowned; she is pulled out and laid on the street... This man only kills women. Invariably blondes... The news is broadcast on all the media, the evening paper is printed and sold on the streets... What is happening in the city? The blondes are terrified... The brunettes joke about it... I think that psychologically the idea of the handcuffs takes us far... Being tied to something... We are in the reign of fetishism".
Alfred Hitchcock