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When Ossessione was completed and released in 1943, it was far from the innocent murder mystery the authorities had expected; after a few screenings in Rome and northern Italy, which prompted outraged reactions from Fascist and Church authorities, the film was banned by the Fascist government that had been reestablished in the German-occupied ...
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.
Feb 4, 2016 · This is as much due to the Ossessione ’s central performances by Clara Calamai and Massimo Girotti as it is the unrelenting rawness of the film’s tale of infidelity, murder, betrayal and disillusionment.
- Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Mar 22, 2020 · Ossessione opened to popular acclaim but was quickly banned by the Mussolini regime, all copies ordered destroyed. The movie was considered subversive, not only on account of its immorality but because of the political statement it made, a statement at odds with fascist values.
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
Gino (Massimo Girotti) and Giovanna (Clara Calamai) have each tried to escape their stagnation through different means, Gino by drifting and Giovanna by marrying, but their mutual attraction provides a new out in the form of spousal murder.
Ossessione (English: Obsession) is a 1943 Italian film based on James M. Cain’s 1934 novel The Postman Always Rings Twice. It is often regarded as Luchino Visconti‘s debut feature film and is widely regarded as the first Italian neorealist film, however, this is debatable.
