Obsession

Obsession

  • Director: Luchino Visconti
  • Writer: Luchino Visconti,Mario Alicata,Giuseppe De Santis
  • Countries of origin: Italy
  • Language: Italian
  • Release date: May 24, 1949
  • Runtime: 2 hours 20 minutes
  • Sound mix: Mono
  • Aspect ratio: 1.33 : 1
  • Also known as: Besessenheit
  • "Ossessione" is a crime film directed by Luchino Visconti di Modrone and starring Massimo Gilotti and Clara Calamai.
    The film tells the story of a homeless man who came to a small town to find a job, met a congenial hotel owner and was hired as a car mechanic, but he not only hooked up with the boss's wife, but also conspired with the woman to kill him together The story of the dead husband.

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    • Release date May 24, 1949
    • Filming locations Ferrara, Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
    • Production companies Industrie Cinematografiche Italiane (ICI)

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    • By Stanford 2022-12-05 05:50:46

      for whom fall

        As a representative work of Italian neorealism, Visconti changed from James Cain's noir novel "The Postman Always Rings Twice". Interestingly, when Visconti made this film, he did not buy the right to shoot it from Kane. In other words, this film is the least legal one in the "Postman" adaptation trilogy. Destiny catches people, as the "illegitimate child" of the original work, it is indeed the most famous one.

        Visconti gave up the name of the original novel and gave the work...

    • By Robin 2022-11-12 12:02:06

      Gay or "gay", gay or communist?

      The title has nothing to do with the text.

      Revisiting Visconti's 1942 business card, The Sinking, noticed a passage that had not been noticed before.

      Elio Marcuzzo (July 27, 1917, Treviso - July 28, 1945, Breda ), Italian actor.

      This film by Visconti is adapted from the...

    • By Dillon 2022-11-09 13:54:27

      An old Visconti movie!

      Visconti's old film, "The Postman Always Rings Twice" was adapted into a film for the first time, but the plot was simplified without the design and hint of "twice". Compared with the original work, the suspense and tension are not so full, but the performance of the characters, especially the eyes, seems to convey the emotions and desires that the original work did not express. The black and white old film, the sound is not clear enough, and the Chinese subtitles seem to have some problems,...

    • By Celine 2022-09-27 01:35:19

      enemy

      The framing of the movie is excellent, especially its close-up shots, which bring out the inner world of everyone vividly.
      This movie is full of betrayal and pain, but in front of love, these are all insignificant. Only love is great, and love can help us overcome everything.
      This movie made me feel a lot, especially the ending, which is always unexpected, but I think having an unexpected ending just reflects the ability of the screenwriter.

      I feel that the tone of this...

    • By Cora 2022-09-21 08:31:22

      People without foundation are unreliable.

      Cats meow before a storm.
      The woman married the fat old man who took her in when she was in distress, but she had a choice when she fell in love with the wandering mechanic. The mechanic Gino was going to take her away, and she went back halfway, because she didn't want to find a homeless person without support, love is not bread.
      Kino got on the train and had no money to buy a ticket. He planned to be kicked out at the next station, but a Quartet entertainer who "has a job...

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    • By Hubert 2023-09-18 04:51:35

      Uncontrollable desires, unavoidable poverty, unavoidable death. This is the fall of a...

    • By Morton 2023-09-17 14:50:53

      The overall characteristic is more obviously a noir film, and it seems that there is not much realism to be found. The characters of the hero and heroine are exquisitely set: the hero loves freedom, and those who love freedom must be honest, and honest people cannot bear the repression of living in a lie; the heroine is greedy for money and beauty, and tired of her simple but rude husband, With a single thought, they walked into the crazy labyrinth hand in hand with the male protagonist. There...

    • By Marcelina 2023-09-10 05:34:09

      I didn't go to the Film Archive when it was released, I watched it on YouTube tonight. It looks good, I like this kind of tangled love story that is doomed to death. The beautiful and seductive bodies of the male and female protagonists are shown as realistically as the towns and markets along the Po River. It is said to be the earliest representative of neo-realism, but Visconti's use of lenses is still much more complex and delicate than other typical neo-realism films. It is indeed a bit of...

    • By Bethany 2023-08-09 11:03:21

      1942, Director: Visconti (Italian), 36 years old. Visconti's first feature film "The Sinking" was adapted from the novel "The Postman Always Rings Twice" by American writer J. Kane. The attention to human life and its details prepared for the birth of Italian Neorealism. The film originally portrayed a poor Italian

    • By Mervin 2023-07-17 05:28:09

      "The Postman Always Rings the Bell Twice" has a special flavor when moved to an Italian background. Opera singing competitions, watching lively events on the street, and priests playing soy sauce are all very life-like. They also compare men who want to be on the road and women who want stability with Struggling to shoot really well. Events proceeded with an Italian sense of irrational motivation and fatalism. Or Nazi era...

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    In this debut novel, Visconti shows Neorealism 's attention to the lives of ordinary people and their details. The film was opposed by the church and defenders because of its moral content, and was banned during the Italian fascist regime. It was banned in the United States because he did not purchase the filming rights of the original work, so it was an infringement of intellectual copyright. Before this film, there were two French...
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