(It's not Il Postino...but--) Luchino Visconti's OSSESSIONE (Obsession) was made in 1942, prior to the better known BICYCLE THIEVES of 1948. It is a very similar melodrama--about a doomed love affair between two desperate Italians, ending in the woman's death and the man's arrest. U-turn shares some aspects of the road itself as a prominent symbol with Ossessione. According to Peter Bondanella's text on Italian Cinema, Visconti received a French translation of James Cain's original 'Postman' novel from Jean Renoir, but a French film adaption had been done in 1939 by Pierre Chenal called The Last Turn (or, Le dernier tournant). The (first) American version by Tay Garnett appeared in 1946. -Susan Vaill ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama.