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Still from Brian De Palma’s Obsession (1976) courtesy Photofest / Columbia Pictures

Obsession

Dark Mirrors: The Double in Cinema

Dark Mirrors: The Double in Cinema

  • Sunday, August 7, 2022
  • 2:00 p.m.
  • East Building Auditorium; Susan Felleman, in person
  • In-person
  • Registration Required

Registration is required.

Introduced by Susan Felleman, professor, art history, film, and media studies University of South Carolina

With motifs reminiscent of VertigoObsession features Cliff Robertson as a widower who, visiting the same Italian church where he met his wife, discovers her apparent reincarnation. In Paul Schrader’s screenplay this “return” only stirs up uncanny revelations. (Brian De Palma, 1976, 98 minutes)