La donna del lago
Cinematography:
Leonida BarboniComposer:
Renzo RosselliniCast:
Peter Baldwin, Salvo Randone, Virna Lisi, Philippe Leroy, Valentina Cortese, Pia Lindström, Ennio Balbo, Vittorio Duse, Bruno Scipioni, Anna Maria GherardiVOD (1)
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Peter Baldwin as Bernard, a depressed novelist who sets off in search of his old flame Tilde (Virna Lisi), a beautiful maid who works at a remote lakeside hotel. Bernard is warmly greeted by the hotel owner Enrico (Salvo Randone) and his daughter Irma (Valentina Cortese), but Tilde has disappeared under suspicious circumstances. Bernard undertakes an investigation and is soon plunged into a disturbing drama of familial secrets, perversion, madness and murder... (Arrow Films)
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I’ve seen several comments here with the word “tense”, which must have a totally different definition than the one I’ve always thought, because The Possessed is many things, but certainly not what I would imagine under that word. It’s slow, sombre and melancholic-lyrical. Objectively, it deserves praise for its above-average quality. In another mood, its atmosphere would have captivated me, but today it was unfortunately got terribly boring.
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