5/8/2023 0 Comments Pierre boileau vertigo![]() Ghostly events have a prosaic explanation in Vertigo, even as an eerie fatalism casts a spell on the characters. A major reason for locating the film in that city was that the village church which was the murder site in the original could be transposed to a California mission church. ![]() The book was set in Paris and Marseilles during WWII, but was transposed to the more familiar environs of San Francisco. François Truffaut said D’Entre les Morts had been written specifically to catch Hitchcock’s eye, and it did. Their previous novels, Les Diaboliques and the Wages of Fear had been made into films in their native France. Vertigo was adapted from the book D’Entre les Morts (From Among the Dead) by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. Analyzed endlessly by film critics, “ Vertigo fares best on screen and not in discussions on paper” (Harris and Lasky). Vertigo’s inherent creepiness deepens with each successive viewing, and in fact, knowing the outcome allows the viewer to look at the film in different ways. Ostensibly a twisty mystery about a detective with a fear of heights, its true subject is the hero’s pathological obsession with a dead woman. It has outlived its critics by becoming a fixture on many lists of the greatest films of all time. ![]() ![]() James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes (128 min).Īlfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece, Vertigo, was dismissed as glossy claptrap in many contemporary reviews. ![]() Vertigo (1958) Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. ![]()
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