LIVE SCREENING
Jude Law (The Young Pope,Closer,The Talented Mr Ripley) stars in the stage production of Obsession, broadcast live from the Barbican Theatre in London. Ivo van Hove (NT Live: A View from
the Bridge,Hedda Gabler) directs this new stage adaptation of Luchino Visconti’s 1943 film.
Gino is a drifter, down-at-heel and magnetically handsome. At a road side restaurant he encountershusband and wife, Giuseppe and Giovanna. Irresistibly attracted to each other, Gino and Giovanna
begin a fiery affair and plot to murder her husband. But, in this chilling tale of passion and destruction, the crime only serves to tear them apart.
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