Good morning! Do you have a favorite film? Mine is Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958).
Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak were great together in that movie.
Novak gives a performance for the ages. It's a difficult role--Madeline and Judy--but she performs it brilliantly....
Playing both women in order to trick Jimmy Stewart showing great skill as an actress.
She's a femme fatale, but also the real victim of the piece. What happens to her and Scottie is tragic.
I like when Scottie learns that the girl from the portrait committed suicide.
It serves to mystify the situation further. Madeline is both ghost and desired romantic object...
You really feel bad for him for falling in love with two women.
He's in love with Madeline. He can't love Judy until he remakes her as Madeline. And his obsession leads inevitably to his loss of both.
Vertigo was one of Hitchcock's two or three best films ever.
Yes indeed! Rear Window, North by Northwest, Psycho, The Birds... all great movies!