Obsession
1976, PG, 98 min.
Directed by Brian De Palma, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Cliff Robertson, Genevieve Bujold, John Lithgow, Sylvia Kuumba Williams.

Double-billed with Hitchcock’s Vertigo, Brian De Palma’s Obsession provides the perfect complement. Obsession is a direct “tribute” to the transubstantiation of identity that occurs in Vertigo as Cliff Robertson finds his dead wife reincarnated 16 years after her death.

This article appears in May 31 • 2002.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.