The Hollywood of the golden age has lost one of its last icons. Eva Marie Saint, who died at her home in Los Angeles at 97 years old from natural causes, was an actress of dramatic prominence and defiant beauty who worked with all the great names of her era: Marlon Brando, Alfred Hitchcock, Paul Newman, Elia Kazan, Cary Grant, Elizabeth Taylor, Gregory Peck... A career that spans seven decades of film history but which shone especially in the 50s, when she debuted with On the Waterfront, a masterful face-to-face with Brando that earned her the Oscar, and also when in 1959 she starred with Cary Grant in Hitchcock's classic North by Northwest.

Film fans and die-hard Alfred Hitchcock admirers will find on Movistar+ a documentary that connects with the universe of Hollywood and one of the great films by the king of suspense: Vertigo. Alexandre Philippe, the director of the documentary, defines it as a session of cinematic spiritualism over which Hitchcock's spirit hovers. The protagonist is the actress Kim Novak. At ninety-three years old, she feels she is in the final stretch of her life. As soon as it begins, the camera moves gently through a garden where the last ray of sun of the day arrives. We hear her with a thin voice and difficulty breathing. Novak explains: “I doubt if I'm doing the right thing by recording this, because I don't know what will come out of what I say, of what I want to say. What do I want to say exactly? Is it about this? About what I want to say? About what I think? About what I feel? I don't know what I'm expected to feel or think. [...] I have suffered a lot. Recently I had a bad fall and I'm short of breath. It's hard for me to keep breathing. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'll live to be a hundred! Who knows! But right now I feel like I'm very close to the end”. The camera moves closer to the door of a house and penetrates inside. The image stops on the wooden volute of an armchair that reminds us of Novak's bun in Vertigo. Then, finally, we see her, painting a picture.