Vertigo (1958)

Ranked #2 in Sight & Sound Greatest Movies Poll.

Hitchcock’s romantic story of obsession, manipulation and fear. A detective is forced to retire after his fear of heights causes the death of a fellow officer and the girl he was hired to follow. He sees a double of the girl, causing him to transform her image onto the dead girl’s body. This leads into a cycle of madness and lies.

Hitchcock’s rich and strange fable of love lost, and lost again, makes the case for him as a grand experimental artist who labored in genre cinema.

Slant Magazine

One of the landmarks — not merely of the movies, but of 20th-century art.

Chicago Reader