★★★★
“Intensely personal”
– Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

“Feels like an act of love from the director of 78/52 and Lynch/Oz.”
– Brian Tallerico / RogerEbert.com

“Unapologetic and, right from the start, impressively unfiltered.
– Damon Wise / Deadline

“Resonates as what is today a vanishingly rare first-hand window into the joys, terrors and vagaries of Hollywood’s golden age.”
– Guy Logde / Variety

“”I needed to know that I was authentic”, says Kim Novak at one point in Alexandre O. Philippe’s affectionately revealing documentary about an actress who turned her back on Hollywood at the height of her career.  That phrase could serve as the logline for a film that is both the celebration of a remarkable woman and an attempt to connect the actress with her most iconic role – that of Judy in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. It feels at times like a kind of exorcism, as the 92-year-old Novak grapples with the ghosts of the past – given prominent visual form here in the grey suit Hitchcock famously forced her to wear in the film, which she is seen handling for the first time in over half a century.”
– Lee Marshall / Screen International