78/52

15 yrs 91 minutes • 2017 • 7.3

How much can you really investigate a three-minute film scene from 1960? Very much, it will show in this documentary about the iconic shower scene in Alfred Hitchcokc's Psycho. In this entertaining and eye-opening essay-like movie, the director shows how the most famous scene in Hitchcock's most famous movie became so important to film history. The title is a play on the 78 different camera setups and 52 cuts that was needed to make the scene possible. To help him, director Alexandre O. Philippe asks film icons like Guillermo del Toro, Peter Bogdanovich, Jamie Lee Curtis and Bret Easton Ellis.