When I Close My Eyes

Granted, Hitchcock's films didn't always make perfect sense, plot-wise (though it's a cinematic rule of thumb that great style will excuse some fuzzy logic), this Hitch-wannabe from the former Yugoslavia is either semi-incomprehensible or suffers from really poor translation. In the proverbial nutshell, a post office clerk named Anna (Petra Govc) decides to help herself to what's left in the till after being robbed by a mysterious dark-haired stranger on a motorcycle. While the police drag the obviously suspicious-looking Anna into the police house at regular intervals, she continues to care for her not-all-there aunt and begins a relationship with some bloke who shows up out of nowhere. For reasons known to Anna alone (motivation? We don't need no stinkin' motivation!), she strings the guy along, but really becomes obsessed with the thief, finally gaining entrance into his apartment and doing a little Julie Andrews happy-as-hell-to-be-alive self-hugging dance. Of course, maybe all of this has to do with the opening scene, in which Anna discovers her postal worker father hanging from a tree...that would explain why she took the postal job, right? I have no idea. Stylish thrillers require at least a modicum of sense in the plot; When I Close My Eyes doesn't meet the bare minimum. Not recommended. (R. Pitman)