Film Reviews

Luchino Visconti, Aristocrat and Marxist, became interested in film-making when Coco Chanel introduced him to Renoir. His first feature, Ossessione, going by the working title of Palude, was adapted from James M. Cain's novel The Postman Always Rings Twice. The film, accompanied by a powerful and tense music score, was made in 1942 war-torn Italy and immediately banned by the Fascist dictatorship.