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Film review A candid, captivating portrait of one of the last golden age stars
The Guardian
|September 02, 2025
Kim Novak's Vertigo Venice film festival
At 92 years old, the Hollywood movie star Kim Novak—legendary for her doppelganger starring role in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo—is a vivid and, in fact, yearningly romantic and demanding presence in this gallant, cinephile documentary-interview filmed by the director and Novak superfan Alexandre O Philippe. She is one of the very few golden age stars still with us, and maybe the title of this film is a playful pun: at the very apex of Hollywood history, perhaps Novak feels dizzy looking down from her mythic height.
Philippe is more than qualified for this kind of intensely personal documentary, having in the past made intriguing films about David Lynch’s debt to The Wizard of Oz and about the Psycho shower scene. With a touch of mischief and misdirection, he begins his film by simply playing a voice note that Novak has sent him, in which she talks sombrely about her health issues and about how much time she has left. She does sound poignantly frail.
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