Alfredo Mayo returns from Africa with.a new bride, Geraldine Chaplin (in a blonde wig). His old friend, Doctor José Luis López Vázquez lusts for her, but she loves her husband. So Vázquez begins to transmute his adoring, previously unnoticed assistant into her. Good thing she's played by Miss Chaplin (in a brunette wig). As she begins to become more like the woman he wants, he continues to try to seduce Miss Chaplin (in a blonde wig).
Carlos Saura's gloss on VERTIGO (albeit one based on an idea by Saura) is, like Hitchcock's, a meditation on sexual obsession. Saura's movies are inherently mannered in a way that is still not clear to me, and filled with symbolism that is likewise obscure. So the unconsidered trappings of wealth that Vázquez ignores, as well as the sickly-sweet creme-de-menthe drinks he plies the objects of his desire have some meaning. Perhaps it is simply a matter of noting that the movie is dedicated to Bunuel to label it a contemptuous satire of the rich.
Carlos Saura's gloss on VERTIGO (albeit one based on an idea by Saura) is, like Hitchcock's, a meditation on sexual obsession. Saura's movies are inherently mannered in a way that is still not clear to me, and filled with symbolism that is likewise obscure. So the unconsidered trappings of wealth that Vázquez ignores, as well as the sickly-sweet creme-de-menthe drinks he plies the objects of his desire have some meaning. Perhaps it is simply a matter of noting that the movie is dedicated to Bunuel to label it a contemptuous satire of the rich.