Name: SCREENING: Vertigo (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
Start: 2026-02-27T17:30:00+00:00
End: 2026-02-27T20:45:00+00:00
Location: Stanhope Road, CT14 6AD Deal, United Kingdom

SCREENING: Vertigo (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)

𝓢𝓣𝓐𝓡𝓡𝓘𝓝𝓖 𝓙𝓪𝓶𝓮𝓼 𝓢𝓽𝓮𝔀𝓪𝓻𝓽 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓚𝓲𝓶 𝓝𝓸𝓿𝓪𝓴
The success of director Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 1955 film Les Diaboliques introduced Hitchcock to the French crime fiction writing team of Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac: Vertigo is his profound re-imagining of their novel D’Entre les Morts [literally: From Amongst the Dead], in which detection operates on multiple levels – physical, psychological, historical. It is “one of the two or three best films Hitchcock ever made,” wrote critic Roger Ebert in 1996, “dealing directly with the themes that controlled his art. It is about how Hitchcock used, feared and tried to control women. He is represented by Scottie (James Stewart), a man with physical and mental weaknesses (back problems, fear of heights), who falls obsessively in love with the image of a woman …. When he cannot have her, he finds another woman and tries to mold her, dress her, train her, change her makeup and her hair, until she looks like the woman he desires.” The result is a uniquely poignant and unforgettable film. [DURATION 2 hours 8 minutes]
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