Possession (1981)
Possession is a 1981 French-German horror drama directed by Andrzej Żuławski. The film revolves around Mark (Sam Neill) - a spy returning from a spying mission to see that his wife, Anna (Isabelle Adjani), wants a divorce. She does not say why, but insists it is not because she found someone else.
1941
July 30, 1941 in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
29 February 1940, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
15 November 1958, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
30 July 1896, Berlin, Germany
7 January 1944, Berlin, Germany
14 September 1947, Omagh, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland, UK
29 May 1923, Berlin, Germany
4 July 1921, Reichenberg, Sudetenland, Germany [now Liberec, Czech Republic]
December 05, 2011
This delirious psychodrama defies classification and will polarize viewers as thoroughly as it did 30 years ago.
November 15, 2010
Uncompromising demented cult oddity.
February 22, 2016
Zulawski's grand and shivery art-therapy hallucination, a burlesque farrago of domestic dramas played close and fast in a distinctively Polish register
September 09, 2010
Its failures would be almost invisible if its successes weren't so excellent.
November 06, 2012
The film could be seen as a metaphor for women's liberation, the battle between the sexes, idealization of one's lover, faith vs. fate and/or a political statement...very effective as straight up, very stylish horror.
November 29, 2011
That the film is much more than a gawk-at-it freak show is testament to Zulawski's talent for making even the most exaggerated behavior resonate with pointed and potent emotion.
March 05, 2012
When it comes to the sheer artistry of filmmaking, it's an astounding, jaw-dropping feat of furious beauty.
October 04, 2013
A film about a woman who fucks an octopus.
November 29, 2011
In much the same way that Possession blurs and blends genres, it also inextricably entangles the personal and the political.
August 08, 2008
Are the characters even real? I don't know, and I don't care. Possession is an ostentatious, absurd waterfall of beauty and horror and I let it wash over me.
January 23, 2014
Adjani won the best actress prize at Cannes for her dual performance (as an unfaithful wife and her angelic doppelganger), but the whole cast is astonishing, exorcising painful feelings with an intensity that rivals that of the filmmaking.
November 02, 2010
really Possession is like nothing else - an uncompromising and idiosyncratic vision of the divisions that exist around, between and within us all.
