Absolute Masterpiece

Rating: Null/10 (3 October 2005)

For such an "interior" movie, this gains a lot of power on the big screen. The locations become sort of imposing in their grandeur, like we've entered a kind of fairy tale, and Hitchcock's color scheme really comes alive.
It's always impressive to see Stewart here. You watch this movie comfortable with good ol' Jimmy and suddenly  and it still comes as a shock, no matter how many times you watch it  you realize that good ol' Jimmy has completely lost his marbles. Kim Novak is also fine, and once you understand the central twist of the movie it becomes fascinating to watch her in the first half, with the understanding of what happens in the second.
Vertigo is a movie you can watch endlessly, as it somehow manages to tap into some truly great mysteries: unattainable love, tragic love, loving an ideal vs. loving reality and the dangers of conflating the two, the inescapability of destiny, the cruelty of life and fate. It resists easy interpretation, as all great art does.