"Obsession" (1976) Directed by Brian DePalma - Part 10 (Finale)
Just before "Carrie" in 1976 - Brian DePalma directed "Obsession - his homage to Hitchcock's "Vertigo" - allot of familiar elements, yet "Obsession" is still the déjà vu of film suspense!
Great music score by Bernard Herrman who also composed big scores for Alfred Hitchcock films including "Psycho" and "Vertigo"
Successful New Orleans businessman Michael Courtland's (Cliff Robertson) tenth wedding anniversary celebration ends tragically when his wife Elizabeth (Genevieve Bujold) and their 9-year-old daughter, Amy, have been kidnapped. In an attempt to trap the criminals, counterfeit money is used to pay the ransom, but the plan backfires and his wife and child die in a car accident during a chase with the police. Ten years later while on a business trip in Italy with La Salle (John Lithgow), his partner, Michael meets Sandra, a young woman who is an exact double of his wife. He falls in love with her and brings her back to Louisiana to get married. Michael's friends and business associates try to discourage his wedding plans; they realize that Michael is infatuated with Sandra only because she reminds him of his dead wife Elizabeth. On the eve of their wedding, she vanishes and Michael finds a ransom note - a duplicate of the one found ten years earlier.
Your absolutely right i have a new favorite movie on my list,everything is great about the movie the stars the great music of Bernard Herman and what a suspense and what a great ending.
ReplyDeleteYou did me a great pleasure with this movie Glenn,thank you.
So they dont make movies anymore!
The finale is quite fantastic! Sandra was so disturbed as a child by her belief that her father never brought the ransom money that she was driven to new life - a very interesting psychological story. The characters were so manipulated that they went a bit crazy in their own thinking. I always enjoyed the ending with the swirling camera - if you will recall, in the opening sequence at the party, as a child, she was in this same situation with her father dancing as the camera swirled around them at that point also.
ReplyDeleteFor DePalma to use this connection again, I find it quite genius as well as very touching.
His homage to hitchcock works great with this movie,i love the movies of Brian the Palma but this is a great one of him.
ReplyDeleteThe beginning and the end that he is swirling with his daughter is indeed genius found of him.
What a great ending of this movie.
Thank you again Glenn for this great movie night!
I just ordered the dvd of this movie i must have it in my collection thanks Glenn
Very cool! The photography and color is fantastic as well as the camera work - so seeing it on DVD would be an advantage.
ReplyDeleteI have more surprises for you coming :)
lolllll thats great Glenn that must be some good movies,surprise me!!!!!
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