Christian Landaeta
22May12
Sure about its 123 minutes in uncut form ?
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Christian Landaeta
22May12
Having been lucky enough for seeing this jaw-dropping film back for its opening on the big screen in 1981, being a fan of the movie and the great music score by Andrzej Korsynzki, I'd like to share something one of the main actors once told me about his own concept of the movie. He said "Possession is about how love can make any of us become monsters" (Sam Neill)
Christian Landaeta
22May12
Best psychological horror movie ever conceived, most hiponotizing performances ever achieved and a music score I have just found our is about to, finally, after 31 years of waitring, going to be released on cd. Zulawski, Korsynski, Adjani, Neill, Bennent, Finders-Keepers, you are all thanked for this wonder, the movie, the performances, the cd releaase.
Mr. Arkadin
21May12
Having finally made it to a big-screen showing of the film (the Siskel in Chicago this past weekend), I can say that I've never felt more exhilarated in a theater in my life.
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Matt Burgess
21May12
Exhaustingly beautiful, intense and fearless. The whole movie is 'possessed' by the madness of its lead characters, filled with frantic camera shots, shrieking psychotic actors and bizarre sequences of crying ballerinas, milky subway births and grotesque alien sex (slimy tentacles and all). One of the greatest films ever made, perfect marriage of art, horror, sci-fi, 'trash' and gothic melodrama.
Mike
17Apr12
Brilliant, overwhelming, vicious, psychotic, bipolar. A relentless tirade of motion and fury. Exceptional photography, editing, and acting.
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Mr. Arkadin
16Apr12
For those of you in the area, the Siskel in Chicago lists screenings of *Possession* on May 20, 21, and 23. (http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/node/2/2012-05)
trolley freak
11Apr12
Controversial Polish emigre Zulawski directs this shocking and brutal horror film which is difficult to watch but at the same time hard to take your eyes off. In an astonishing award-winning role the brilliant Adjani gives one of the most fearless and brave performances I've ever seen as the woman who deserts her husband for an affair with a demonic creature in a deserted apartment. Unclassifiable and barking mad....
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Ross Patterson
4Apr12
My thoughts before watching the film were that it might be a film to admire, rather than a film to like. Despite this, Possession was really fucking great, if a little unfocused. Adjani and Neill are pretty much perfect here.
Adrock
17Mar12
Basically liked this one, and can see why it has a cult following, but I think my issue is the movie starts at an 8 and goes to like 12. There's not a whole lot of room for character development or even Hitchcock/Polanski style slow-burn suspense. As such, we just view it as a giant trainwreck of crazy shit. That said, Adjani's meltdown in the subway is pretty jaw dropping.
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David Grillo
4Mar12
I just came back from the screening sweaty and i swear somebody can poke me and I wouldn't feel it. Being from NYC I remember seeing many many people act out in fits of madness close to this one in the subway or the station I always wanted to imagine there pain this blissful suffering, after this I feel I've been introduced to those pieces of the jigsaw puzzle pieces of me pieces of us.If it's good that's a reflection of evil than with my madness or anybody's one can be doomed to fall in love.
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Christopher Smith
3Feb12
This is a movie that needs to be seen to be believed. The purposefully overwrought performances take a little getting used to, but Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neil's descent from high melodrama to body horror madness is mesmerizing, excellently crafted with superb fluid camerawork by writer-director Andrzej Zulawski, whose films I must see more of. Cult movie fans need to seek this one out.
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Mr. Arkadin
28Jan12
Just finished rewatching this (thanks TCM); forgot how great Heinz Bennent is (especially when his proximity to the monster strikes him temporarily blind...). And, FYI, according to www.cinefamily.org/films/the-mad-unbelievable-genius-of-andrzej-zulawski/ there's a North American retrospective coming this year. Would that I could make it to LA...
Michael Convery
26Jan12
Imagine some films about intense destructive marriages (The Shining, Antichrist, several Bergman films, etc.) and inject them with a shot of adrenaline. The demons are never lurking under the surface in this film, they are out and clutching at the hair and wrists, forcing everyone to dance to death.
Remote Viewer
17Jan12
Like having Scenes of a Marriage + Repulsion + The Thing play simultaneously at 4x speed after palming Seconal and passing out on the bible. Near genius...
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Derek Tvmala
30Dec11
Overtly obsessive, shocking and nihilistic. A psychotic's dream of dystopia and excessive behaviour that is beautifully made to discern uncanny depression.
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Francisco R.
5Dec11
I was much more impressed with his first feature than I was with this one, you can tell Zulawski has too much control over the narrative when he leaves no room for character development or characters at all, instead handling actors like puppets in his own deranged show, a show he ultimately loses control of anyways since his ideas lack serious focus. But the experience as a whole is pretty memorable nonetheless.
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frank sgro
20Nov11
La materializzazione della follia. La più totale e disturbante visione di cinema. Il mio Capolavoro Assoluto!
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