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Alfred Hitchcock | USA | 1958 | 128 min | English
When Vertigo was released in 1958 you couldn’t have predicted that 50 years later, critics would select it as the best film of all time. On the contrary: the press was negative and audiences didn’t flock to the cinemas. Hitchcock blamed the cast: James Stewart was perhaps too old for his role – the actor was after all 25 years older than actress Kim Novak. However, it is that age difference that makes Vertigo all the more interesting. It makes Stewart’s character’s developing obsession with Madeleine, the wife of one of his friends, extra uncomfortable. Former cop ‘Scottie’ Ferguson isn’t a hero, but an anti-hero.
Ferguson is left a broken man after his vertigo contributes to Madeleine’s death. But then he meets Judy, his secret love’s double. While he gradually remakes her into Madeleine, the game that’s being played with him reveals itself.
Place: The Cinemas 1
Date: 26 March 2015
Time: 15:45
Duration: 2:15
Place: The Cinemas 6
Date: 29 March 2015
Time: 10:45
Duration: 2:15
Year in
Festival
2015
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Camera
Robert Burks
Cast
James Stewart
Kim Novak
Barbara Bel Geddes
Tom Helmore
Henry Jones
Raymond Bailey
Ellen Corby
Country
USA
Editor
George Tomasini
Language
English
Length
128 min
Music
Bernard Herrmann
Production Company
Production Design
Henry Bumstead
Hal Pereira
Scenario
based on the screenplay by Alec Coppel
Samuel Taylor and a novel by Pierre Boileau
Thomas Narcejac
Year of Production
1958