If you loved La Terra Trema, try Obsession

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by Luchino Visconti, and they both carry the foreign gem, raw, slow burn mood tags, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to La Terra Trema, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Obsession is

Visconti's first film is a markedly un-Visconti-like noir. A drifter and a married woman embark on a torrid affair and conspire to murder her older husband. It's a sweaty, grubby melodrama, which may be why cinephiles still rate it so highly.

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