Vertigo

1. Describe the restaurant where Scottie first sees Madeleine.
2. Watch the sequence when Scottie follows Madeleine and put the events in the order they happen :
   • ____ she buys a small bouquet of flowers
   • ____ he follows her car
   • ____ she stares at a portrait in an art gallery
   • ____ she stops at a church
   • ____ Madeleine comes out of the apartment building
   • ____ she goes into a florist's and Scottie follows
   • ____ she pulls into an alleyway
   • ____ there seems to be a resemblance between the paitning and Madeleine
   • ____ Madeleine visits a cemetry and prays by a grave
   • ____ she pulls away from the apartment building
   • ____ Scottie is reading a newspaper in his car
   • ____ Madeleine stops at a hotel and goes in
   • ____ she drives downtown
   • ____ she drives off again and Scottie follows
   • ____ Scottie takes note of the name on the tombstone
   • ____ The attendant tells Scottie the name of the woman in the painting

3. Look back at the sentences, and combine them using these linking words :

   when

   because

   however

   although

   but

   while

4. Who is the woman in the painting? Why is the name significant?
5. What does Scottie ask for in the hotel and why won't the receptionist help him?
6. What does the receptionist think of the woman?
7. What has the receptionist been doing recently?
8. What does Scottie ask her to do
9. What does the receptionist call Scottie?
10. What has happened to Madeleine's car?

Read this commentary on the scenes and find synonyms for the underlined words :