Overview

• Novak received the Icon Award at the Deauville American Film Festival on Sept. 6 in a rare public appearance that included a screening of Kim Novak’s Vertigo.
• The Deauville honor follows her Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at Venice on Sept. 1, where the documentary premiered.
• Directed by Alexandre O. Philippe, the film assembles Novak’s voice notes and archival material to present a candid self-portrait.
• Novak frames the project as a way to free memories and to “wrap up” her life, reflecting on aging and personal history in her own words.
• Sue Cameron, Novak’s manager and an executive producer, describes the documentary as an authentic account, with further festival screenings slated at the BFI London Film Festival in October.