

A wealthy New Orleans businessman becomes obsessed with a young woman who resembles his late wife.
Direction
De Palma's most shameless Hitchcock pastiche, and it WORKS.
Score
Bernard Herrmann basically rewrote his Vertigo score. Again.
Cinematography
Florence locations that make obsession look embarrassingly beautiful.

Director
Brian De Palma
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
De Palma wrote the screenplay with Paul Schrader in ten days after Schrader's original draft was deemed too dark.
The Florence locations were secured by promising the city a restored print of Visconti's 'Senso'—classic film blackmail.