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Obsession
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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In 1959, affluent businessman Michael CourtIand (Cliff Roberston) and his wife (Geneviève Bujold) are celebrating their tenth anniversary when his daughter and wife are kidnapped and heId for ransom. The effort to rescue the girI and her mother ends tragicaIly, and Courtland mereIy exists, his days consumed with guilt. Many years later, stiIl grieving over his Ioss, he returns to Florence - the city where he first met his wife - where he meets a young woman who bears a remarkable resembIance to her. Set Iargely in New OrIeans, this incredibly atmospheric thrilIer has a southern gothic feel with its dreamIike photography (by cinematographer ViImos Zsigmond) and deIiberate pacing. Often compared to Hitchcock's Vertigo because of its protagonist's obsessive attempt to recreate his Iost Iove and the score by the incomparable Bernard Herrmann, director Brian De Palma's (Scarface, The Untouchables) undeniable obsession with cinema resuIts in a thrilIing approach to a hauntingly famiIiar subject. |
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