POSSESSION (Andrzej Żuławski, France/West Germany 1991). Director's cut/4K restoration.
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Banned in the United Kingdom and delayed for two years (and severely cut) before being distributed in the United States, Andrzej Żuławski’s highly choreographed nightmare of a marriage unraveling is an experience unlike any other film. Professional spy Mark (Sam Neill) returns to his West Berlin home to find his wife Anna (Isabelle Adjani, in a role that earned her Best Actress at Cannes) insistent on a divorce. As Anna’s frenzied behavior becomes ever more alarming, Mark discovers a truth about her far more sinister than his wildest suspicions. With its pulsating score, visceral imagery, and some of the most grueling performances ever captured on screen, Possession, restored and uncut, is cinematic delirium at its most intoxicating.
Reviews
“Andrzej Żuławski’s 1981 masterpiece is like no other film before or after it, a swirling, hallucinatory portrait of a marriage in shambles and a wife, husband, and lover ensnared in a stew of passions that lead only to Armageddon. There’s a frightening majesty to its lunacy.”
—Nick Schager, Esquire
"Isabelle Adjani, crowned best actress at Cannes, gives the performance of a lifetime — a veritable aria of hysteria — as an increasingly distraught, unfaithful wife."
—J. Hoberman, LA Weekly
“There are plenty of movies which seem to have been made by madmen. Possession may be the only film in existence which is itself mad: unpredictable, horrific, its moments of terrifying lucidity only serving to highlight the staggering derangement at its core.”
—Tom Huddleston, Time Out
"Possession’s bewildering complexities and unnerving overtures render it a singular work, crazier even than Lynch and Cronenberg.”
—John Serba, Decider
"A primal scream of psychosexual horror."
—Kris Moyse, Starburst
"Remarkable... Amazingly gripping and erotic."
—Christopher Potter, The Ann Arbor News
"Cunning camera work, large doses of ambiguity and Adjani's frighteningly mesmerizing performance make this one of the most bizarre, stylish and fascinating of horror films.
—Alex O. Williams, Daily Utah Chronicle
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