5/9/2023 0 Comments Vertigo by Boileau-Narcejac![]() The plot of Vertigo has more holes than a pair of fishnets, which can be off-putting on a first viewing. “A plot structure of egg-shell thinness,” wrote Penelope Houston in Sight & Sound.įifty-four years later, Vertigo took over from Citizen Kane at the top of a Sight & Sound poll of the greatest films of all time and now, 60 years after its original release, the film’s status seems assured. When Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo was released in 1958, the critics were by no means all negative – “One of the most fascinating love stories ever filmed,” said The Hollywood Reporter – but, for the most part, the response was lukewarm. “The film’s first half is too slow and too long,” said Variety. ![]() ‘F arfetched nonsense,” said the New Yorker. ![]()
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