Kim Novak on Her Venice Film Festival Doc ‘Kim Novak’s Vertigo’: ‘ It Was a Chance to Wrap Up My Life’

Kim Novak decided to walk away from Hollywood in 1966, at the height of her fame, because it felt like the right thing to do. The screen legend, now 92, also trusted her instincts last year when director Alexandre O. Philippe asked her to be the subject of a documentary.

“I felt somehow that it was meant to be,” says Novak.

Philippe’s doc “Kim Novak’s Vertigo” blends rare archival footage with personal reflections from Novak to trace her path from mid-century cinema icon to a fiercely private artist.

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