Haunted by Hitchcock's 'Vertigo'

Haunted by Hitchcock's 'Vertigo':


David Thomson on Vertigo on the occasion of Kim Novak's return to the city for an award honoring her film contribution to the history of San Francisco.


Thomson writes in SF Gate:

Imagine you are making a precarious recovery from a breakdown. ... There was this woman, a blonde in a gray suit. You saved her from drowning at Fort Point, but you couldn't prevent her from falling off a mission tower and by then you had fallen in love with her. You were politely blamed for this mishap; you put it down to your debility, your vertigo - or was it the old need to fall in love that doctors cannot treat?

Well, a little later, a matter of months, you saw a redhead on the street. It couldn't be Madeleine. She said her name was Judy. But you saw a resemblance between the two faces and the frightened eyes, and you noticed the way you felt the same about both women. Was this a second chance? Or would you have been luckier if you'd never seen Kim Novak on the street?

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/06/08/RVRQ1OIBB3.DTL#ixzz1yXrE9o00
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