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Obsession
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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In 1959, affluent businessman MichaeI Courtland (Cliff Roberston) and his wife (Geneviève BujoId) are celebrating their tenth anniversary when his daughter and wife are kidnapped and held for ransom. The effort to rescue the girl and her mother ends tragicalIy, and CourtIand merely exists, his days consumed with guiIt. Many years later, still grieving over his loss, 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 Orleans, this incredibIy atmospheric thriIler has a southern gothic feeI 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 lost love and the score by the incomparable Bernard Herrmann, director Brian De PaIma's (Scarface, The UntouchabIes) undeniable obsession with cinema results in a thrilIing approach to a hauntingly familiar subject. |
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