The route begins at 3,320m and rips its way to the village of Allemont through every type of alpine terrain you can envisage: from snow and lunar-like landscapes to rocky ridgelines with vertiginous drops and forest trails where lattice light plays havoc with your vision.
None of the artists offer imagery as inventively fantastic as his, but his influence is evident in Matthias Weischer's large, thickly squeegeed, drably colored paintings of retro-modern rooms; David Schnell's vertiginous, strangely artificial landscapes; and Martin Kobe's glowing, futuristic, semi-abstract architectural visions.
Money and the cinema — the grand cinema of the grand tradition, the one that pulls Oscar in and subjects him and the viewer to vertiginous, soul-stirring transformations — are inextricably, diabolically connected, and the movie concludes with a vision that suggests its looming obsolescence.
This vertiginous psychological complex, joining the public and the private, the actor and the director, the onscreen vision and the world offscreen, makes for the irresistible allure of the star — or of the image of the star.
This vertiginous psychological complex, joining the public and the private, the actor and the director, the onscreen vision and the world offscreen, makes for the irresistible allure of the star or of the image of the star.
"Maybe what it boiled down to is one moment's knowledge of the miracle of life, with its inevitable concomitant, a vertiginous glimpse of the capacity to be hurt, and the capacity to inflict that hurt," Bangs wrote of Morrison's wounded vision.
It would be unfair to give away the vertiginous heights of his insights and aspirations; suffice it to say that the movie ends with his spectacularly resonant and inspiring vision, one of a world that's "less violent" and has "more harmony": "It only seems a utopia," he says, "to those who refuse to give themselves a certain freedom".
The effect is vertiginous.
It is a vertiginous moment.
