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.
14 September 1947, Omagh, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland, UK
29 May 1923, Berlin, Germany
23 August 1944, Vienna, Austria
7 January 1944, Berlin, Germany
4 July 1921, Reichenberg, Sudetenland, Germany [now Liberec, Czech Republic]
1941
July 30, 1941 in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
27 February 1906, Berlin, Germany
27 June 1955, Paris, France
29 February 1940, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
30 July 1896, Berlin, Germany
15 November 1958, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
1952
18 July 1921, Stolberg, Germany
November 15, 2010
Uncompromising demented cult oddity.
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.
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.
December 05, 2011
This delirious psychodrama defies classification and will polarize viewers as thoroughly as it did 30 years ago.
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.
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
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.
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.
September 09, 2010
Its failures would be almost invisible if its successes weren't so excellent.
October 04, 2013
A film about a woman who fucks an octopus.
