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28 de out. de 1983 · Possession: Directed by Andrzej Zulawski. With Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Margit Carstensen, Heinz Bennent. A woman starts exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking her husband for a divorce. Suspicions of infidelity soon give way to something much more sinister.
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- Drama, Horror
- Andrzej Zulawski
- 1983-10-28
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Mark is a spy who returns home to West Berlin from a mysterious espionagemission to find that his wife, Anna, wants a divorce. She will not say why but insists it is not because she found someone else. Mark reluctantly turns the apartment and custody of their young son, Bob, over to her. After recovering from a destructive drinking spree, he visits...
Trying to classify Possession, critics drew parallels with Roman Polanski's Repulsion and David Cronenberg's The Brood. Despite being referred to as a psychological drama and psychological horror, the genre of the film is still a matter of controversy. J. Hoberman commented, "Made with an international cast in still-divided Berlin, the movie starts...
Żuławski approached Danièle Thompson and asked if she would work on a film. After receiving a script about 20 pages long, Thompson suggested Frederic Tuten; thus, Żuławski went to New York to meet him. They worked on the script for the film in New York and Paris while Żuławski was in a state of deep depression. In 1976, he divorced actress Malgorza...
Possession had its worldwide premiere at the 34th Cannes Film Festival, and was released in France on 27 May 1981. After an initial limited theatre release in the United Kingdom, the film was banned as one of the notorious "video nasties". On American screens, it came out in a heavily edited 81-minute cut version from Limelight International Films ...
Critical reception
Possession received lukewarm critical response when it was initially released in the summer of 1981. Derek Malcolm of The Guardian stated that, while Żuławski displayed talent and the special effects were unforgettable, the film itself was far too serious for its own good. Dennis Schwartz from Ozus' World Movie Reviews gave the film a grade of "C+", calling it "[an] uncompromising demented cult oddity". Leonard Maltin wrote of the film: "Adjani 'creates' a monster, to the consternation of hus...
Legacy
In the years following its release, Possession accrued a cult following. Film scholar Bartłomiej Paszylk deemed it "one of the most enigmatic and uncompromising horror movies in the history of cinema". Writer Kim Newman considers Possession to be a "kitsch film", noting: "Zulawski takes his film too seriously, but it's fun all the same ... [he] goes mad with his swooping camera, has everything in shot painted in blue and encourages his stars to attack their roles with a kind of stylised hyste...
Maltin, Leonard (1994). Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide. Plume. ISBN 978-0-452-27327-6.Newman, Kim (2011). Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen Since the 1960s (Revised ed.). A&C Black. ISBN 978-1-408-80503-9.Paszylk, Bartłomiej (2009). The Pleasure and Pain of Cult Horror Films: An Historical Survey. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-786-45327-6.Żuławski, Andrzej; Kim, Renata (2011). Żuławski. Ostatnie słowo (in Polish). Czerwone i Czarne. p. 240. ISBN 978-8377000199.Possession at IMDbPossession at AllMoviePossession at Box Office MojoPossession at Rotten Tomatoes25 de fev. de 2022 · Mark (Sam Neill) returns home to West Berlin from an espionage mission to find that his wife Anna (Adjani) wants a divorce, but won't tell him exactly why. Mark eventually agrees, giving up their...
14 de ago. de 2023 · YouTube/screenshot. Isabelle Adjani considers herself a “survivor” after controversial thriller “Possession.”. The film, which places among IndieWire’s list of top ’80s films, was ...
3 de jan. de 2023 · 5.1K. 469K views 1 year ago. Banned upon its original release in 1981, Andrzej Żuławski’s stunningly choreographed nightmare of a marriage unraveling is an experience unlike any other. Professional...
Possessão é um filme dirigido por Andrzej Zulawski com Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill. Sinopse: Após retornar de uma longa viagem, tudo que Marc quer é encontrar sua esposa Anna e seu filho...
2 de jun. de 2011 · Possession (1981) - Official Trailer - YouTube. thecultbox. 101K subscribers. Subscribed. 3.6K. 1.2M views 12 years ago. Featuring the beautiful French actress Isabelle Adjani A young woman...
