My all time favorite film

Rating: 10/10 (30 July 2018)

There's a reason why Hithcock's Vertigo is seen in the eyes of many film critics as the best film ever made. It's truly a masterpiece. Hitchcock's crowning achievement. The acting by Jimmy Stewart, Kim Novak, and Barbara Bel Geddes is extraordinary. The music pulls you into the oddly hypnotic suspense even further. The cinematography is so beautiful and so vivid that it adds more depth to the film. It's almost as if it's the fourth character of the film.
Both leads played two parts in the movie. Jimmy Stewart as the calm and mostly collected former detective, and Jimmy Stewart as the unhinged madman trying to get back to his Madeline. And Kim Novak as the beautiful wife of a former friend of Scotty's, hauntingly possessed by the spirit of Carlotta Valdez, and as the "tawdry" (original trailer's description of her character) redhead from Kansas.
Haunting, hypnotic, beautifully strange, suspenseful and unhinged all are descriptives that can easily be used to describe this wonderful film. It is a MUST see!