Vintage Poster
Vertigo (Hitchcock)
Regular price
€24,99
Sale price
€21,99
Free delivery
Don't hang around! Nothing remains but 20 copies available!
20 orders in the last 24 hours.
Rediscover the atmosphere of Alfred Hitchcock's famous psychological thriller thanks to this superb Vertigo Poster, ideal for your decoration!
- Paper characteristic:
- 🎨 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 .
-
FREE STANDARD DELIVERY .
⚠️ Frame not included. ⚠️
Description of this Vertigo Hitchcock Poster
Vertigo is a 1958 American film noir, psychological thriller film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock. The story is based on the novel Between the Dead by Boileau-Narcejac (1954). The screenplay was written by Alec Coppel and Samuel A. Taylor. The film stars James Stewart as former police detective John "Scottie" Ferguson, who retired because an incident in the line of duty caused him to develop acrophobia (a extreme fear of heights) and vertigo, a false sensation of rotating movement. Scottie is hired by an acquaintance, Gavin Elster, as a private detective to follow Madeleine (Kim Novak), Gavin's wife, who has been exhibiting strange behavior.
The film was filmed in the city of San Francisco, California, as well as at Mission San Juan Bautista, Big Basin Redwoods State Park, Cypress Point on 17-Mile Drive, and Paramount Studios in Hollywood. It is the first film to use dolly zoom, a camera effect that distorts perspective to create disorientation, to convey Scottie's acrophobia. Due to its use in this film, the effect is often referred to as the "Vertigo effect". In 1996, the film underwent a major restoration to create a new 70mm print and a DTS soundtrack.
Vertigo received mixed reviews upon its initial release, but is today considered a Hitchcock classic and one of his defining works. In 1989, it was among the first 25 films selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry due to their "cultural, historical, or aesthetic significance".[4][5] The film has appeared several times in the American Film Institute's best film polls,[6] most notably in 2007 where it was ranked the ninth best American film of all time. Attracting the attention of researchers, it replaced Citizen Kane (1941) as the greatest film ever made in the 2012 Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time poll,[7] and came in second in 2022.
After a rooftop chase in which a fellow police officer fell to his death, San Francisco detective John "Scottie" Ferguson retires due to a fear of heights and heights. Scottie tries to overcome his fear, but his ex-fiancée, underwear designer Marjorie "Midge" Wood, says another severe emotional shock may be the only cure.
Gavin Elster, a college acquaintance, asks Scottie to follow his wife, Madeleine, under the pretext that she is acting strangely and that her mental state is abnormal. Scottie reluctantly agrees and follows Madeleine to a florist, where she buys a bouquet, to the Mission San Francisco de Asís and to the grave of Carlotta Valdes (1831-1857), and to the art museum of the Legion of Honor, where she contemplates the portrait of Carlotta. He sees her entering the McKittrick Hotel, but upon investigation, she does not seem to be there.
A local historian explains that Carlotta Valdes committed suicide: she had been the mistress of a rich married man and had carried his child; the otherwise childless man kept the child and rejected Carlotta. Gavin reveals that Carlotta (who he fears may possess Madeleine) is Madeleine's great-grandmother, although she knows nothing about it and does not remember the places she has visited. Scottie follows Madeleine to Fort Point and when she jumps into the bay, he saves her.
The next day, Madeleine stops by to deliver a letter of gratitude to Scottie, and they decide to spend the day together. They go to Muir Woods and Cypress Point on 17-Mile Drive, where Madeleine runs toward the ocean. Scottie grabs him and they kiss. The next day, Madeleine visits Scottie and tells him about a nightmare. Scottie identifies it as Mission San Juan Bautista, Carlotta's childhood home. He takes her there and they tell each other that they love each other. Madeleine suddenly runs into the church and climbs the bell tower. Scottie, stopped on the steps by his acrophobia, sees Madeleine plummeting to her death.
The death was ruled a suicide. Gavin does not blame Scottie, but the latter breaks down, becomes clinically depressed and is sent to a sanatorium, almost catatonic. After her release, Scottie frequents the places Madeleine visited, often imagining that he sees her. One day, he notices a woman on the street who reminds him of Madeleine, despite her different appearance. Scottie follows her to her hotel room, where she identifies herself as Judy Barton, from Salina, Kansas.
Judy has a flashback revealing that she was the person Scottie knew as "Madeleine Elster". She posed as Gavin's wife in an elaborate murder scheme. Judy writes a letter to Scottie explaining her involvement: Gavin deliberately took advantage of Scottie's acrophobia to substitute his wife's freshly killed body in the apparent "suicide jump". However, Judy tears up the letter and continues the charade because she loves Scottie.
They start seeing each other, but Scottie remains obsessed with "Madeleine". He asks Judy to change her clothes and dye her hair to look like Madeleine. After Judy agrees, hoping that they can finally find happiness together, he notices that she is wearing the necklace depicted in Carlotta's painting. Scottie realizes the truth and insists on driving Judy back to the Mission.
There, he tells her that he must piece together the event that led to his madness, admitting that he now understands that "Madeleine" and Judy are the same person, and that Judy was Gavin's mistress before being rejected , just like Carlotta. Scottie forces her into the bell tower and makes her confess to her deception. Scottie reaches the top, finally overcoming his acrophobia. Judy admits that Gavin paid her to pose as a "possessed" Madeleine. Judy begs Scottie to forgive her because she loves him. He kisses her, but a shadow - in fact a nun who is investigating the noise - emerges from the trap door of the tower and makes her jump. Judy suddenly throws herself backwards and falls to her death. Scottie, grieving once again but cured of his fear of heights, stands on the ledge as the nun rings the mission bell.
