Ossessione (1943)
- Directed by
- Luchino Visconti
- Genre
- drama film, film noir, crime film
- Country
- Italy
- Runtime
- 2h 20m
- Rated
- 18
- Rating
- 7.5 of 10 from 272 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A drifter becomes entangled with a married woman and her husband in a small Italian town. Their obsessive affair leads them to conspire toward a dangerous act.
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What happens
Ossessione (Italian pronunciation: [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 the leading roles. It is often considered to be the first Italian neorealist film, though there is some debate about whether such a categorization is accurate. Banned and ostracized by the Fascist regime during its initial release, the Italian Ministry of Culture has since placed Ossessione on its list of 100 Italian films to be saved, distinguishing films which "changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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