When director Alfred Hitchcock decided to make a screen adaptation of the 1954 novel D’entre les morts (From Among the Dead) Paramount Pictures backed him. The title was changed to Vertigo and released in 1958.
It did not set the box office alight. Critics did not show much love to it either. This is due in large part to just how dark the film is for its era. Vertigo was years ahead of its time.
Over the subsequent years filmmakers in particular fell in love with it. Its popularity grew to iconic status. It now regularly features in the top ten lists of the greatest movies of all time.
This documentary, Obsessed With Vertigo focuses on the making of and restoration of Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece. Those close to the film, reveal the filmmaking story that led to the finished film and the reasons why Vertigo still endures.