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Obsession (1943)
Director: Luchino Visconti
Country: Italy
Length: 140 minutes
Type: Drama, Crime
'Obsession' ('Ossessione') is a fairly faithful but unauthorised adaptation of 'The Postman Always Rings Twice', made under the last year of Italy's Fascist Government. Luchino Visconti's first film is far from his lavish later films, it's more an early entry in the gritty Neorealist style. A frank film about the sexual obsession between a bored wife and a roguish drifter, who plot to murder her husband did not please the Vatican, or the Fascists. It was banned and destroyed in Italy but Visconti luckily kept a copy for himself. The immediate lust between the two lead actors Clara Calamai and Massimo Girotti in their first scene is electric. Despite many other powerful scenes, at 2-hours and 20-minutes, it felt longer than it needed to be.
The first film in the list by Vincente Minnelli next.
Obsession (1943)
Director: Luchino Visconti
Country: Italy
Length: 140 minutes
Type: Drama, Crime
'Obsession' ('Ossessione') is a fairly faithful but unauthorised adaptation of 'The Postman Always Rings Twice', made under the last year of Italy's Fascist Government. Luchino Visconti's first film is far from his lavish later films, it's more an early entry in the gritty Neorealist style. A frank film about the sexual obsession between a bored wife and a roguish drifter, who plot to murder her husband did not please the Vatican, or the Fascists. It was banned and destroyed in Italy but Visconti luckily kept a copy for himself. The immediate lust between the two lead actors Clara Calamai and Massimo Girotti in their first scene is electric. Despite many other powerful scenes, at 2-hours and 20-minutes, it felt longer than it needed to be.
The first film in the list by Vincente Minnelli next.