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- A dapted from James M. Cain’s popular novel The Postman Always Rings Twice, which would also be adapted by Hollywood three years later, Ossessione (US: Obsession) is notable for many reasons: it’s the first feature film directed by Italian master Luchino Visconti, the first example of what would become known as Italian neorealism, and Europe’s first true film noir (but only if earlier French poetic realism is excluded from the definition).
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Dec 31, 2019 · Even stranger that the resulting film was not a film noir at all, instead being arguably the first example of the Italian Neorealist genre, and the directorial debut of the art cinema Grand Master, Luchino Visconti. This was Ossessione.
Mar 17, 2016 · Backtracking somewhat, Visconti’s debut feature is also not to be missed – a nearly singular example of Italian film noir. Adapted from James M. Cain’s novel The Postman Always Rings Twice (and predating the first American film version), Ossessione is steeped in desirous yearning and murderous impulse, with grimy, sexy performances from ...
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 ...
Mar 6, 2014 · With 1942’s Ossessione – generally considered to be the first Italian neorealist film – director Luchino Visconti drew heavily on his experiences working with Jean Renoir in the 1930s to craft an earthy, pitch-black story of adultery and murder.
Mar 11, 2019 · In his essay ‘Sex in the cinema’, David Forgacs argues that the sociosexual imaginary in Ossessione (Luchino Visconti, 1943) is rife with ‘reactionary elements’ and that there is ‘nothing intrinsically anti-fascist’ in the film’s plotline. 1 While it is true that Visconti’s debut shares some narrative and tonal components with ...
- Lorenzo Fabbri
- 2019
Adapted from James M. Cain’s popular novel The Postman Always Rings Twice, which would also be adapted by Hollywood three years later, Ossessione (US: Obsession) is notable for many reasons: it’s the first feature film directed by Italian master Luchino Visconti, the first example of what would become known as Italian neorealism, and Europe ...
Feb 4, 2016 · Their radical ideological agenda would spark within Visconti a taste for Marxist ideals. 4 Visconti threw around a number of ideas for his first movie, including an adaptation of Giovanni Verga’s realist story L’amante di Graminga, a proposal rejected by Italy’s then Fascist government censors.
