Gender and power in cinema - Alfred Hitchcock's 'Notorious' (1946), Stanley Kubrick's 'Eyes wide shut' (1999) or from the portrayal of emotion to theunleashing of desire

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate for the second half of the tw entieth century, the grace of cinematographic art in its treatment of senti ments, of desire and of the resulting balances of power. From Alfred Hitchc ock's post-war Notorious (1946) to Stanley Kubrick's end-of-century Eyes Wi de Shut (1999), the issue is not much to view half a century of power conce rning the theme of love and of power of the cinema, rather it is to evoke, using these two examples, the cinematic writing of sentiments and desire as a scene of sexual power. All the while restoring to the art of cinema its unique force.