Possession

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Rey S Mar 18, 2019 Great acting, story, and cinematography. It's a great mix between a more straight-forward story and an artsy one.

Han L Sep 15, 2018 Wow what an insane, surrealist horror film. The acting is really something else, as the actors dial it right up to 11/10 from the beginning and go up from there. Its hard to categorize this film or know what its truly saying because its left open-ended. But obviously its about a failed marriage that involves a love triangle. It shows the guilt shame and madness the woman endures when she no longer loves the man and the despair, breakdown and madness the man feels having lost the love of his life. There are 2 doppelgangers that can be viewed as each other's ideal partners. Everything is surreal in this movie from each individual fight, to their actions alone, to their behaviour when alone. Everything is intentionally over the top. It can be very hard to follow the plot as there is a lot of symbolism and allegory taking place. If you're a fan of over the top movies with unbelievable acting, this is a movie for you. See more

Hermione W Aug 31, 2018 I don't know why people don't know this movie, this is a masterpiece and a classic cult.

Poe S Aug 25, 2018 Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill go insane as a couple experiencing a messy divorce. And in fact, I'm not quite sure whether the real actors weren't losing it too, given the obvious commitment to extreme experience that they demonstrate here. There is a scene in the Berlin subway where Adjani seems to be having a seizure that is almost too much to bear. Both she and Neill spend much of the film covered in blood (the film was banned in several countries as a "video nasty", although brutal, it isn't sadistic torture porn or anything). Basically, there appear to be two parallel narratives - the actual objective "facts" of the divorce and the subjective psychological experience of the couple that is somehow literally projected into reality as something horrible. There is a monster that has taken possession of Adjani and she moves to a new apartment with it; some commentators think this monster represents her guilt for having an affair while Neill was away on business (he appears to be a Cold War spy). Neill meets Adjani's exact double (except with green eyes) who is apparently the school teacher for their young son, Bob. He begins an affair with her - some think that she represents his ideal fantasized version of a wife/partner. Eventually Adjani's monster transmogrifies into another version of Neill. It is all pretty WTF and intensely emotional - the plot is beside the point, just a series of encounters between Neill and Adjani and Heinrich (the man with whom she had the affair) as well as the detectives that Neill hires to follow her. So, the objective narrative is pretty mundane but director Andrej Zulawski is more interested in the gut-wrenching subjective experience and unless you want to have one too, I'd be wary of this film. See more

Hagrid R Aug 24, 2018 The birth child of Bergman, Polanski and Lovecraft with enough anxiety and paranoia for all three. Adjani's performance is a revelation, the first rate cast is equally superb and Zulawski's direction is inspired. See more

Aug 12, 2018 Despite at times feeling outdated Possession is still truly disturbing and unsettling with it's scarily unhinged lead performances See more

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