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Films of Ideas: "Rope" with Nicci Gerrard and Sean French
Fri 05 Sept
|Regent Street Cinema
Rope (1948): Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart, this psychological thriller explores crime as an intellectual exercise.
Time & Location
05 Sept 2025, 19:00 – 21:30
Regent Street Cinema, 307 Regent St., London W1B 2HW, UK
About the event
Film screening & live podcast recording.
Rope (1948): Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart, this psychological thriller explores crime as an intellectual exercise. Based on the notorious real-life case of Leopold and Loeb, it raises the question of whether the most brutal crimes could be inspired by a warped reading of Nietzsche’s philosophy.
Nicci Gerrard & Sean French: Best-selling husband-and-wife writers of psychological thrillers under the pseudonym Nicci French; Sean French is also the biographer of playwright Patrick Hamilton, the author of Rope.