Overview

• Novak, 92, accepted the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion to a prolonged standing ovation, with Guillermo del Toro delivering a tribute.
• She used her stage remarks to urge that truth matters and to rally support for global democracies, also noting how painting has aided her mental health.
• Alexandre O. Philippe’s film Kim Novak’s Vertigo premiered out of competition, built around a relaxed two-person conversation interwoven with archival clips.
• In the documentary, Novak shares personal accounts from her childhood and reflects on aging and a bipolar diagnosis, recentering the narrative of her life and career.
• The film’s emotional coda features her rediscovering the gray suit from Vertigo, while early reviews describe an intimate yet uneven portrait now seeking U.S. distribution.