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Ossessione ([ossesˈsjoːne], "Obsession") is a 1943 Italian crime drama film directed and co-written by Luchino Visconti, in his directorial debut. It is an unauthorized and uncredited adaptation of the 1934 novel The Postman Always Rings Twice by American author James M. Cain , and stars Clara Calamai , Massimo Girotti , and Juan de Landa in ...
Documentary about Luchino Visconti’s "Ossessione", a 1943 Italian film based on the 1934 novel The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain. Starring Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti.
Feb 4, 2016 · As much as the 1946 adaptation of The Postman Always Rings Twice has earned its place as an important American Film Noir, so too Ossessione is essential to Italy’s history of lurid, intoxicating giallo cinema. 16 Ossessione provides a perfect bookend to Calamai’s final performance as Marta in Dario Argento’s Profondo Rosso (1975): in both ...
Aug 24, 2020 · Ossessione – 1943 Visconti. An important film in the history of film noir, Italian neorealism (even if it doesn’t fit most of the characteristics of the movement), and Italian cinema in general.
Review by theriverjordan ★★★★ 62. “Ossessione” was neorealism born out of pulpy domestic desperation. Debatably the first film in a movement more notable for depicting rubble-strewn postwar streets, “Ossessione” chose to enter inside the era’s sheets.
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Senses of Cinema A landmark film in both Neo-Realist and giallo traditions, the legacy of Ossessione lives and breathes in every frame.
Visconti's stunning feature debut transposes The Postman Always Rings Twice to the endless, empty lowlands of the Po Delta. There, an itinerant labourer (Girotti) stumbles into a tatty roadside ...
