Ossessione

A landmark film in both Neo-Realist and giallo traditions, the legacy of Ossessione lives and breathes in every frame.

The raw warm poetry of Ossessione has nothing to do with neo-realism; the film is unencumbered by ideology and political commitment.

Ossessione is the fully achieved work of a matured artist, and in the last analysis it heralds nothing but the oracular career of one of the very greatest of the elect in that still small clutch of film masters.

Ossessione, which also began the late Mr. Visconti's remarkable film career, may be slow-going to the uninitiated, but its historical importance is not to be denied.

The film holds up well today, both as a murder story and as a slice-of-life.

Luchino Visconti's first solo effort and the first great Italian neorealist film.

I don't know if I can say exactly that 'Obsession' is a Luchino Visconti's masterpiece, but without a doubt it seems to me to be a rather subtle neorealist film about misery, adultery and remorse. [Full review in Spanish]

The hardboiled appetites of The Postman Always Rings Twice brushing against European anguish

In something beyond drama and melodrama, diluted American mythos makes for Euro cine refined.