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Dec 31, 2019 · Visconti's 1943 movie Ossessione took a new approach to crime films. Chris Flackett looks back at the triumph of Neo-Realism over Film Noir.
Mar 11, 2019 · Ossessione’s subaltern, revolutionary, transnational, queer new realism was to give way to neorealism’s cult of family and virtue. Ossessione was not Italy, Vittorio Mussolini had apocryphally claimed. Nor was it going to be.
- Lorenzo Fabbri
- 2019
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 ...
In this context, Ossessione faced great distribution and exhibition obstacles, with the Fascists at one point even cutting and destroying prints of the film. (Visconti wisely squirrelled a version away himself, and thus the film survived 12).
The following thesis focuses on the Italian director, Luchino Visconti and his first feature film, Ossessione. It evaluates his film in relation not only to the director’s biography but also to its historical and cinematic context.
- Marco Della Motta
Mar 22, 2020 · Ossessione cast light on poverty and despair, exposing the lies of nationalism. In place of the regime’s insistence on family, church, and country, the film showed women turning to prostitution because they had no other means of supporting themselves. Men defeated by their inability to find dignified work.
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Landscape and Film Theory. In the fall of 1943, one year after shooting his first film Ossessione, Visconti publishes a minor artistic manifesto in Cinema announcing, a country in the midst of momentous political change (July 25 - fall Mussolini; September 8 - armistice), a new cinema to come.3 There. writes:
