Obsession
A bizarre story of love.
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 38 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: August 2, 2011
- Originally Released: 1976
- Label: Sony Pictures Home
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Cliff Robertson & Geneviève Bujold | |
Performer: | Wanda Blackman, John Lithgow, Sylvia Kuumba Williams, Pat McNamara, Stocker Fontelieu & Don Hood | |
Directed by | Brian De Palma | |
Edited by | Paul Hirsch | |
Screenplay by | Paul Schrader | |
Composition by | Bernard Herrmann | |
Story by | Brian De Palma & Paul Schrader | |
Produced by | George Litto & Harry N. Blum | |
Director of Photography: | Vilmos Zsigmond |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
The fun in Obsession comes not from its plot but from its sweeping passions.
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Film Frenzy
The result is a positive, life-affirming work made by people who know how to exorcise their personal obsessions with beauty and craft.
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Los Angeles Free Press
Not only is it sick, but flawed with contrivances, imitation Hitchcock gimmicks, and unanswered questions.
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Los Angeles Free Press
4 stars out of 5 -- Brian De Palma's melodrama has aged surprisingly well....Beautifully shot by Vilmos Zsigmond and with a towering score by Bernard Herrmann...
Total Film
[I]t's hard not to respond to the sheer single-mindedness with which De Palma treats the material as a doomy, music-driven reverie....Still quite something.
Sight and Sound
Rating: 4/5 --
Obsession endures because De Palma fanatics can see the origins of the director's obsessions make their way on to the screen.
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FanboyNation.com
De Palma's direction has its splashy slickness, but the people serve as mere props for the effects.
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New York Magazine/Vulture
Description by OLDIES.com:
In 1959, affluent businessman Michael Courtland (Cliff Robertson) and his wife (Genevieve Bujold) 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 tragically, and Courtland merely exists, his days consumed with guilt. Many years later, still grieving over his loss, he returns to Florence - the city where he first met his wife - and meets a young woman who bears a remarkable resemblance to her.
Set largely in New Orleans, this incredibly atmospheric thriller has a southern gothic feel with its dreamlike photography and deliberate 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 Palma's undeniable obsession with cinema results in a thrilling approach to a hauntingly familiar subject. Newly remastered.
Product Description:
In one of director Brian DePalma's (DRESSED TO KILL, MISSION IMPOSSIBLE) many cinematic tributes to Hitchcock (this one borrows from VERTIGO), Cliff Robertson portrays an American businessman whose wife and child are killed in a botched kidnap rescue effort. Years later, while in Italy, the still-distraught widower begins an affair with a woman (Genevieve Bujold) whose resemblance to his late wife is rather uncanny. The script was co-written by Paul Schrader (TAXI DRIVER, RAGING BULL).
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 22,394
- UPC: 043396385948
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