Vintage Poster
Vertigo
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Discover this Vertigo Poster, one of Alfred Hitchcock's most famous films which will add a little thrill to your decoration.
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- 🎨 Canvas: world standard in terms of printing and imitating a “painting canvas” appearance .
- By default, the poster contains a 4 cm white border for framing (frame not included). If you don't want it, please choose "without white border".
- ✅ Size: several choices available . ✅
- Great UV resistance .
- Maximum color vibrancy, without reflections .
- Recycled paper, guaranteeing respect for the environment.
- Poster carefully packaged and delivered in a protective tube for total protection .
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Description of this Vertigo Poster
Vertigo is a 1958 American psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock with James Stewart and Kim Novak in the lead roles. The screenplay is based on the novel From Between the Dead (1954) by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac.
The film, which was received with some reservation by critics and the public during its first screening, today counts among the director's most important works. As part of the critical survey conducted every ten years by the British magazine Sight & Sound on the "best films of all time", the film was ranked at the top of the 2012 list by more than 800 film critics.
The plot follows John "Scottie" Ferguson, a retired police officer, who falls in love with a suicidal woman, but cannot prevent her death due to his vertigo. Later, when he meets a young woman who looks exactly like the deceased, he tries to transform her into the image of his late love.
While pursuing a criminal across the rooftops of San Francisco, police officer John "Scottie" Ferguson finds himself in a perilous situation: he slips on a tiled roof and clings to the gutter at the last minute. A colleague who tries to help him falls to his death. Scottie leaves the service due to a diagnosis of vertigo and feelings of guilt. His longtime platonic friend, Midge Wood, tries to support him in this new stage of his life.
Scottie's old classmate, Gavin Elster, asks him to follow his wife Madeleine. Elster worries about his wife, who seems to be possessed by the spirit of her late great-grandmother Carlotta Valdes. She committed suicide at the age of 26; according to Elster, Madeleine, also 26 years old, feels more and more the need to imitate him. She wears the same hair as Carlotta and regularly visits her grave as well as the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, where there is a portrait of her. Additionally, she rented a room in the last hotel Carlotta stayed at. Scottie follows Madeleine to Fort Point, and when she jumps into San Francisco Bay, he saves her from drowning and takes her to his home.
The next day, Madeleine brings Scottie a thank you letter and they decide to spend the day together. They go to Muir Woods and Cypress Point on 17-Mile Drive, where Madeleine walks down to the sea. Scottie catches her and they hug. The next day, Madeleine visits Scottie and tells him about a nightmare. At the center of the dream is the former Spanish mission of San Juan Bautista, Carlotta's childhood home. He leads her there and they express their love for each other. Madeleine suddenly rushes into the church and to the top of the bell tower. Scottie, stopped on the steps by his dizziness, sees Madeleine rushing towards her death. The investigating judge attributes to him - even if he is innocent in the legal sense of the term - some responsibility for his death. Scottie sinks into depression and is committed to a psychiatric hospital.
Released cured, but marked by the death of his beloved, Scottie meets some time later Judy, a young saleswoman who bears a striking resemblance to Madeleine. In fact, it is one and the same person: Judy had pretended to be Madeleine, Elster's wife, so that the latter could murder the real one. Since Judy really loves Scottie, she leaves him in the dark. Obsessed with reviving the image of the deceased Madeleine, Scottie urges Judy to take on Madeleine's appearance in her clothes, hair color, hairstyle, and behavior. Judy reluctantly agrees, hoping that Scottie will fall in love with her true self over the course of their relationship. When she puts on a piece of jewelry that belonged to Madeleine, Scottie realizes that Judy and Madeleine are identical and that he has been the victim of a deception.
Scottie then goes on a mission again with Judy and forces her to recreate the events of the time in the tower: Elster knew that Scottie's dizziness would prevent him from following Judy to the top of the tower. There, Elster waited with his wife's body, which he pushed into the void at the opportune moment. Scottie, helpless, thus served as a witness to the fake suicide. Before moving to Europe, Elster left Judy and bought her silence with clothes and jewelry from Madeleine's estate.
Scottie overcomes his vertigo and climbs with Judy to the top of the tower. Judy protests her love again, but Scottie is unable to reciprocate it. They kiss one last time, but in fear of a dark figure suddenly appearing - a missionary nurse has followed them - Judy steps back, loses her footing and falls into the abyss. Scottie is free of his illness, but he has lost Madeleine a second time, this time permanently.
