"TAKES EXTREMELY EMOTIONAL HAIRPIN TURNS THAT HITCHCOCK WOULD NEVER HAVE DREAMED OF"
Last week, as the Brian De Palma retrospective was beginning at The Metrograph, The New York Times' Stephen Holden took a moment to appreciate De Palma's "underappreciated" Obsession, which he calls a high point of the De Palma series. "As history begins to repeat itself," states Holden, "the film, based on an original script by Paul Schrader, takes extremely emotional hairpin turns that Hitchcock would never have dreamed of. A surging Wagnerian score by Bernard Herrmann, the composer for Vertigo, is the luscious icing on the cake."