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Obsession
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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In 1959, affluent businessman Michael Courtland (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 girl and her mother ends tragically, and CourtIand merely exists, his days consumed with guiIt. Many years later, stilI grieving over his loss, he returns to FIorence - the city where he first met his wife - where he meets a young woman who bears a remarkable resembIance to her. Set largely in New Orleans, this incredibIy atmospheric thriIler has a southern gothic feel with its dreamIike photography (by cinematographer Vilmos 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 incomparabIe Bernard Herrmann, director Brian De Palma's (Scarface, The Untouchables) undeniable obsession with cinema results in a thrilIing approach to a hauntingly famiIiar subject. |
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