Principal photography began on 7 July 1980 in West Berlin, and most of the film was shot next to the Wall, in the Kreuzberg section of West Berlin. [37], Michael Brooke of Sight & Sound commented in 2011, "Although it's easy to see why it was pigeonholed as a horror film, its first half presents what is still one of the most viscerally vivid portraits of a disintegrating relationship yet committed to film, comfortably rivalling Lars von Trier's Antichrist, David Cronenberg's The Brood and Ingmar Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage. Andrzej Żuławski’s films include Possession, That Most Important Thing: Love, On the Silver Globe, The Devil… He argued that this made Possession "one of the few horror films that successfully builds a back story for its main characters". But it deserves 5 stars because Żuławski and his actors achieved what they intended. They worked on the script for the film in New York and Paris while Żuławski was in a state of deep depression. "[39] On Metacritic, the film earned a weighted average score of 72 out of 100, based on 9 reviews, signifying "generally favorable reviews". I do not even know if I like it or not. A bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, amidst a series of brutal murders. [17], The role was emotionally exhausting for Adjani. A programmer at a TV station that specializes in adult entertainment searches for the producers of a dangerous and bizarre broadcast. [16][6], Żuławski and the film's producer, Marie-Laure Reyre, immediately chose Isabelle Adjani as Anna. A spiral staircase movie, a never-ending metaphysical game of cat-and-mouse, a moral aspiration to the Heavens, a “spotlight” on God, a scornful detective movie, a horror movie and frightful, high-octane baroque work—Possession is all of that at once. Starting a relationship with Helen lessens his obsession with Anna. [3][2], Although the film was banned from distribution in the United Kingdom, it was later released uncut on VHS and DVD in 2000 by Anchor Bay Entertainment. A woman starts exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking her husband for a divorce. By this time, Adjani had already become a celebrity, but the producers had reasons to expect that she would accept the offer. [Daily Dead’s 2020 Holiday Gift Guide]: Our Third Annual Enamel Pin Extravaganza! [24], After an initial limited theatre release in the United Kingdom, the film was banned as one of the notorious "video nasties". An insurance investigator begins discovering that the impact a horror writer's books have on his fans is more than inspirational. [1] 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. Bob implores her not to open the door, but Helen ignores him. Żuławski's only English-language film, it premiered at the 34th Cannes Film Festival, where Adjani won the Best Actress award for her performance. Anna "grows" a double of Mark from the creature, an indefatigable lover who is always by her side. The silhouette of Mark's doppelgänger is seen from the frosted glass door. "[35] In his review, however, Baltake conceded that the truncated version of the film he had seen—cut by approximately 50 minutes—may have contributed to the film's incoherency. The plot of Possession is not limited to an autobiographical description of a difficult breakup, separation and marital disintegration in family relations – at that time Żuławski also experienced a final departure with Poland. Possession (1981) Directed by Andrzej Żuławski Genres - Avant-garde / Experimental | Sub-Genres - Surrealist Film , Marriage Drama , Supernatural Horror | Release Date - Oct 28, 1983 (USA) | Run Time - 123 min. She won't say why but insists it's not because she found someone else. [10], Many writers about Possession have paid attention to the motif of doppelgänger throughout the film. Żuławski himself tells more about this in an interview with Daniel Bird. At home, he finds Anna's friend Margie's corpse outside. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. The plot obliquely follows the relationship between an international spy and his wife, who begins exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking him for a divorce. During a secretive business trip away, Mark learns that his wife Anna is growing restless in what he believed was their happy marriage. Directed by Andrzej Zulawski. [8][5], Possession had a modest total of 541,120 admissions in France. Publicité | Trailer JustWatch. Helen stares, her green eyes illuminating. Bob races through the flat into the bathroom, where he floats in the bathtub face-down. [38], On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 86% of 21 critic reviews are positive for Possession, and the average rating is 7.7 out of 10. In one of the interviews, she stated that it took her several years to recover from, which J. Hoberman called "a veritable aria of hysteria". [19] Time Out magazine compared the behavior of her character to the actions of "a dervish of unrestrained emotion and pure sexual terror".[20]. Use the HTML below. A surgeon causes an accident which leaves his daughter disfigured, and goes to extremes to give her a new face. Mark meets Heinrich at the bar where he murders him, but stages it as an accidental death in the bathroom stall. In the meantime, Mark also meets Bob's teacher Helen, who looks exactly like Anna, but is her polar opposite in temperament. While emigrating, he did not give up on suicidal thoughts, which he had initially been able to get rid of by starting to work on a new film. Mark receives a phone call from Anna's lover, Heinrich, telling him that Anna is with him. Mark raises his gun to shoot it but he and Anna are gunned down by a hail of bullets from the police below. The confrontation ends with death for both, and in the last frames of the film, there is a direct allusion (the sounds of sirens and the rumble of explosions) on the armed conflict that began in the city divided in two, which could end in a nuclear apocalypse. other countries of the European social camp, "Extreme Sex Addiction in Shame; Extreme Everything in Possession", "Beyond Polish Moral Realism: The Subversive Cinema of Andrzej Żuławski", "Romantic Trauma: Andrzej Zulawski Remembered", "Some Ways of Looking at Isabelle Adjani", "Интервью Анджея Жулавского для Радио Свобода", "Kermode and Mayo's Film Review - Sam Neill, Rams, Malcolm and Marie and Greenland", "Blu-ray Review: The POSSESSION Release By Mondo Vision Owns All Others", "Film: 'Possession,' Blood And Horror, With Isabelle Adjani", "No Sex Please... 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An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders. Was this review helpful to you? [1][23] The "surrealist, clean quality" Żuławski wanted for the film was aided by the Steadicam work of camera operator Andrzej J. Jaroszewicz and Bruno Nuytten's cinematography and lighting. Possession "[4] Reviewing the Blu-ray release of the film in 2013, Michael Dodd of Bring The Noise was similarly impressed with what he called "an intense exploration of marital breakdown". In the meantime, Mark also meets Bob's teacher Helen, who looks exactly like Anna, but is her polar opposite in temperament. The very reason why this film was lambasted by so many people is because it requires the full use of imagination on the part of the viewer. Davis was hesitating over whether to take the role, so Adjani eventually accepted the offer. Get a sneak peek of the new version of this page. [26] In the United States, it was released on 28 October 1983 and grossed $1.1 million at the box office. Possession is a 1981 psychological horror drama film directed by Andrzej Żuławski, written by Żuławski and Frederic Tuten, and starring Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill. Download. Possession is a 1981 psychological horror drama film directed by Andrzej Żuławski, written by Żuławski and Frederic Tuten, and starring Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill. A woman starts exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking her husband for a divorce. However, very few directors are able to use cinematic space as Zulawski does in this film. The film was not a commercial success either in Europe or in the United States, where it was released with an edited version, but eventually acquired cult status. Possession is a 1981 French cult horror film directed by Andrzej Żuławski and starring Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill. possession (1981) dir. The genre of the film is still a matter of controversy. Mark, an intelligence agent, leaves his job for his family. Mark stops by Anna's apartment first and discovers the body parts; the creature, however, is gone. The next day, Mark meets Bob's teacher, Helen; she inexplicably looks identical to Anna but with green eyes. Possession (1981) Directed by Andrzej Żuławski Rating: 7/10 Review: Possession isn't really a horror film but it's great. An unexperienced young actress is invited to play a role in a film based on Dostoyevsky's 'The Possessed'. A team of astronauts land on an inhabitable planet and form a society. "[34] The Philadelphia Daily News's Joe Baltake deemed the film a "boringly camp-elegante attempt by a group of reputable French, German and Polish filmmakers," and assessed Adjani's performance as "babbling, incoherent yet arresting. After receiving a script about 20 pages long, Thompson suggested Frederic Tuten, thus Żuławski went to New York to meet him. Check out our gallery of the 2021 Golden Globe nominees in the leading and supporting acting categories, as the characters they so brilliantly played and in real life, Title: Żuławski often went against mainstream commercialism in his films, and enjoyed success mostly with European art-house audiences. Written and directed by acclaimed international director Andrzej Zulawski (L’important c’est d’aimer) and featuring shocking creature effects by Carlo Rambaldi (E.T., Alien), Possession is an experience like no other; part masterful art film, part bizarre horror thriller. "[14] 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 hysteria rare outside Japanese theatre. Heinrich visits Anna at the second apartment and discovers the creature as well as a collection of dismembered body parts in her refrigerator. This doesn't appeal to your rational part, it's supposed to connect with you on spiritual or deeply emotional level, it's supposed to appeal to something in you that can't be rationalized or explained verbally. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Last summer the Polish director presented his thirteenth feature at the Locarno Film Festival, and carried away a Best Director prize. [4][5][6][7] As J. Hoberman notes: A number of critics deny the creature with tentacles in physical reality – it may be a reflection of Anna's psychosis, the product of Mark's inflamed consciousness: unable to accept his wife's betrayal,[9] or a kind of revenge of the director traumatized by his own divorce from his ex-wife. There he finds that his wife Anna, played by Isabelle Adjani, wants a divorce. He then discovers Anna having sex with the creature. I knew it was worth a lot of effort for [Adjani], both emotionally and physically, because it was cold there. During the Prussian army's invasion to Poland in 1793, a young Polish nobleman, Jakub is saved from the imprisonment by a stranger who wants in return to obtain a list of his fellow ... See full summary ». And Isabelle Adjani having sex with a tentacled Doomsday harbinger. Anna leaves her family to become an "agent of the dark forces". Written by A troubled man gets released from prison and starts taking out his sadistic fantasies on an unsuspecting family living in a secluded house. The recording of the interview can be found in the supplementary material for the British DVD release of the film, published in 2010 by the company Second Sight, and also 2014 Blu-ray release by Mondo Vision. Written and directed by Andrzej Żuławski, “Possession” is a deeply unsettling experience, aided by the horrific special effects of the great Carlo Rambaldi (Deep Red, Close Encounters, Alien). After an unsuccessful attempt to start a career in Hollywood (released in 1978, Walter Hill's The Driver failed at the box office), Adjani decided to return to European cinema. 111 of 169 people found this review helpful. When he goes to meet with her, she commits suicide by poisoning herself. Both spouses die, but they are replaced by doubles, ideal models of husband and wife. The real Mark finds a copy of Anna in the person of the school teacher Helena – she is a gentle character, and does not demand anything from Mark, being an ideal housewife. The plot obliquely follows the relationship between an international spy and his wife, who begins exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking him for a divorce. [35], In the years following its release, Possession accrued a cult following. And I think I only just escaped that film with my sanity barely intact. Possession (1981 film) Share. Possession, an international co-production between France and West Germany, was filmed in West Berlin in 1980. Directed by Andrzej Żuławski Running time: 124 minutes As Possession opens, we find our lead Mark, played by Sam Neil, returning home to West Berlin after a mysterious spy mission. Possession prances through a prism of explicit insanity, morphing into its true form while screams and orgasmic whimpers echo across infinite spaces of desolation. Rated the #2 best film of 1981, and #176 in the greatest all-time movies (according to RYM users). Possession (1981) Directed by: Andrzej Żuławski. It’s probably his most famous film in the United States (along with another unclassifiable “genre” effort, the unfinished sci-fi movie On The Silver Globe ), and one I’d been meaning to revisit for years. They hollowed me out and threw away the pulp. The reason we are here now is the other one, which had the misfortune to arrive on video just at the wrong time, to end up on the Video Nasties list, easily the most bizarrely out-of-place of all the 72 films on the DPP's hit list: Andrzej Żuławski's 1981 depiction of psychosis, marriage, and hot woman-on-humanoid-squid sex, Possession. [15] A year and a half later, following the authorities' halting of work on the film On the Silver Globe in 1978, the director faced a de facto ban and was forced to leave Poland. He drags the body inside where Anna greets him, and the two have sex in the kitchen. But as Mark and Anna's encounters together reach more emotional and violent levels, Mark, with help of a private ... Rams Review: Sam Neill Leads a Kind, Safe Remake of Icelandic Drama. After she disappears, abandoning their child in her apartment, Mark manages to track down his wife's lover. The film director, a Czech immigrant in Paris, takes over her life, and in a short... See full summary ». "[20] Similarly, Slant Magazine's Budd Wilkins gave the film a 4/4 stars, saying that "Many directors have taken full advantage of Adjani's exotic, ethereal French beauty; only Zulawski saw beyond the exquisite surface to something unsettling. The next morning, they have another argument during which they both cut themselves with an electric knife. Sam Neill has also commented on the rigours of filming: "I call it the most extreme film I've ever made, in every possible respect, and he asked of us things I wouldn't and couldn't go to now. Schlock Corridor: POSSESSION (1981) The emotionally devastating story of a marriage in ruins. Director Andrzej Zulawski and interviewer Dan Bird offer an extremely insightful look at this disturbing monster art film. Possession is a 1981 French-German horror drama directed by Andrzej Żuławski and starring Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill. A sex-repulsed woman who disapproves of her sister's boyfriend sinks into depression and has horrific visions of rape and violence. Anna leaves in the middle of the night. Afterward, he makes plans to cover up Margie's death. Suspicions of infidelity soon give way to something much more sinister. Anna states that her want for the divorce is not because of another man, but Mark finds out that Anna has a lover named Heinrich. This release was available in a standard special edition, as well as a limited edition numbered to 2,000 units. After recovering from a destructive drinking spree, he visits the apartment to find Bob alone, unkempt, and neglected. Celebrate Black History Month with some of the most iconic figures in Hollywood. He stages a distraction, allowing someone, possibly Anna, to sneak away in his car, but he is wounded in the ensuing shootout. The death of Andrzej Żuławski from cancer has come with appalling timing, as he had just rekindled his cinematic career after a 15-year hiatus. [4][6] On American screens, it came out in a heavily edited 81-minute cut version on the eve of Halloween 1983, having lost more than a third of its runtime;[25] the distributor turned Possession into an eccentric body horror, almost completely eliminating the main theme of the painful breakdown of marriage. Starting a relationship with Helen lessens his obsession with Anna. Directed by Andrzej Zulawski. Going up up and away into spiritual voids, clamoring against love and all that it stands for but not what it instills in us; Andrzej Zulawski rips cinema in half, slices its innards, and puts it all on a scale to measure. He was born in Lviv, Ukrainian SSR (now Ukraine). [29], Possession received lukewarm critical response when it was initially released in the summer of 1981. Caught in the middle is their infant son Bob, who Mark uses as a gage to Anna's mental state. Director Andrzej Zulawski achieved his most widespread international success with this elliptical, allegorical tale of a disintegrating marriage and its grotesque byproducts. andrzej zulawski #☀ #i shouldn't have been allowed to watch this movie #anywaysss here are some screencaps i havent seen used yet #possession 1981 #possession #isabelle adjani #sam neill #andrzej zulawski #horror This scene was filmed at five in the morning, when the subway was closed. Possession is a 1981 French-German horror drama directed by Andrzej Żuławski. Directed by: Andrzej Żuławski. To call it overwrought would be an understatement. He is evasive and returns to Margie's apartment to find it surrounded by police and his former employers. Mark visits and fights Heinrich, then beats Anna at home, after which she flees. Lire ses 1 396 critiques. Possession (1981 film) is similar to these films: The Devil (1972 film), The Third Part of the Night, Cosmos (2015 film) and more. Caught in the middle is their infant son Bob, who Mark uses as a gage to Anna's mental state. "[32] Leonard Maltin wrote of the film: "Adjani 'creates' a monster, to the consternation of husband Neill, lover Bennent—and the viewer", ultimately deeming the film a "confusing drama of murder, horror, intrigue, though it's all attractively directed. Later, Helen is at the flat babysitting Bob when the doorbell rings.
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