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Ossessione is a 1943 Italian crime drama film directed by Luchino Visconti, based on a novel by James M. Cain. It is often considered the first neorealist film, but its genre and style are debated.
Ossessione is in very bad state but is now undergoing a full restoration at Digital Film Lab in Copenhagen. The material used is a "Master positive" 2nd generation originally from the print Visconti managed to hide from the fascists.
Learn about the making and impact of Ossessione, the first Italian neorealist film by Luchino Visconti, based on a novel by James M. Cain. Watch interviews with actors, crew members and Roberto Benigni.
11 Mac 2019 · Ossessione’s subaltern, revolutionary, transnational, queer new realism was to give way to neorealism’s cult of family and virtue. Ossessione was not Italy, Vittorio Mussolini had apocryphally claimed. Nor was it going to be.
“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. The work showed a microcosm of the struggle to survive the snares of man’s own desires.
24 Ogo 2020 · A review of Luchino Visconti's debut film, based on James Cain's novel, about a fatal love triangle. The film combines elements of film noir and Italian neorealism, with a stunning score and cinematography.
4 Feb 2016 · Ossessione (1943) is a film adaptation of James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice, but also a radical challenge to Fascist Italy and a precursor of Italian Neo-Realism. The film explores the destructive power of sexual passion and the social conditions that drive its characters to crime and despair.
