Ivo van Hove, artistic director of Tonnelgroep Amsterdam, has taken up residency at the Barbican. He follows his highly praised productions of Shakespeare, Arthur Miller and Ibsen with a disappointing production based on the Luchino Visconti’s first film, Obsession, which was based on JM Cain’s 1934 American crime novel, The Postman Always Rings Twice, a term synonymous with sexual duplicity. The story has been filmed many times since, most notably in 1946 with John Garfield and Lana Turner and in 1981 with Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange.