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before fleeing on Heinrich's motorcycle. At home, he finds Anna's friend Margie on the brink of death as she emerges from the lift, bleeding from knife wounds. She dies; he drags the body inside where Anna greets him, and the two have sex in the kitchen. Afterward, he makes plans to cover up Margie's death. He then discovers Anna having sex with the creature. Heinrich's mother phones Mark asking about her son. When he goes to meet with her, she commits suicide by taking several pills.
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There were two takes. This scene was filmed at five in the morning, when the subway was closed. I knew it was worth a lot of effort for , both emotionally and physically, because it was cold there. It was unthinkable to repeat this scene endlessly. Most of what's left on the screen is the first take.
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rated the film eight out of ten stars, calling it "a visceral, violent, erratic and piercing effort that pokes and prods its audience any chance it gets"; Pollard would also praise the performances of Adjani and Neill, practical effects and unsettling tone. In his review of the 4K restoration, David
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throughout the film. Both spouses die, but they are replaced by doubles, ideal models of husband and wife. Anna "grows" a double of Mark from the creature, an indefatigable lover who is always by her side. The real Mark finds a copy of Anna in the person of the school teacher Helen – she is a gentle
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The next day, as Mark wanders the street, his former business associates pressure him to rejoin them. He is evasive and returns to Margie's apartment to find it surrounded by police and his former employers. He stages a distraction, allowing someone to sneak away in his car, but he is wounded in the
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Mark receives a phone call from Anna's lover, Heinrich, telling him that Anna is with him. The next day, Mark meets Bob's teacher, Helen; she inexplicably looks identical to Anna but with green eyes. Mark visits and fights Heinrich, who beats him. Mark then beats Anna at home, after which she flees.
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s Joe Baltake deemed the film a "boringly camp-elegante attempt by a group of reputable French, German and Polish filmmakers" and assessed Adjani's performance as "babbling, incoherent yet arresting". In his review, however, Baltake conceded that the truncated version of the film he had seen—cut by
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Later, Helen is at the flat babysitting Bob when the doorbell rings. Bob implores her not to open the door, but Helen ignores him. Bob races through the flat into the bathroom, where he gets into the bathtub face-down, drowning himself. From outside, the sound of sirens, planes, and explosions fill
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Mark hires a private investigator to follow Anna and discovers that she has been keeping a second flat in a derelict apartment building. When the investigator discovers a bizarre tentacled creature in the bathroom, Anna kills him with a broken bottle. The lover of the now-dead detective, Zimmerman,
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mission to find that his wife, Anna, wants a divorce. She will not say why but insists it is not because she found someone else. Mark reluctantly turns the apartment and custody of their young son, Bob, over to her. After recovering from a destructive drinking spree, he visits the apartment to find
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A number of critics deny the creature with tentacles exists within physical reality: it may be a reflection of Anna's psychosis; the product of Mark's inflamed consciousness, unable to accept his wife's betrayal; or a kind of revenge of the director traumatized by his own divorce from his ex-wife.
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Heinrich calls Mark and begs him to pick him up. Mark stops by Anna's apartment first and discovers the body parts; the creature, however, is gone. Mark meets Heinrich at the bar where he murders him, but stages it as an accidental death in the bathroom stall. He then sets Anna's apartment on fire
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s Budd Wilkins gave the film 4/4 stars, saying that "Many directors have taken full advantage of Adjani's exotic, ethereal French beauty; only Zulawski saw beyond the exquisite surface to something unsettling. Most disconcerting is the way Adjani can register almost demonic ill-intent while never
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film", noting: "Zulawski takes his film too seriously, but it's fun all the same ... goes mad with his swooping camera, has everything in shot painted in blue and encourages his stars to attack their roles with a kind of stylised hysteria rare outside Japanese theatre." Newman also likened
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Scholar Bartłomiej Paszylk writes that the metaphors present in the film also represent "a disintegrating country. The very fact that the film takes place in Cold War-era West Berlin is quite significant for the metaphor of divorce—the wall that separates it from East Berlin being a symbol of
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is not limited to an autobiographical description of a difficult breakup, separation and marital disintegration in family relations – at that time Żuławski also experienced a final separation from Poland. Two houses in the film – the modern one, which is Mark and Anna's apartment, and the old
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while he was gone. She claims it resulted in a nervous breakdown; during the miscarriage, she oozed blood and fluids from her orifices. Heinrich visits Anna at the second apartment and is shocked to discover the creature in the bedroom, as well as a collection of dismembered body parts in her
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alternately panned the film, awarding it one-and-a-half out of four stars and writing that Adjani's "prize-winning mad-act is impossible to appraise because the film it's in is outlandishly unhinged as well... Just about any dialogue accompanying this mess would seem ludicrous". The
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Sam Neill has also commented on the rigours of filming: "I call it the most extreme film I've ever made, in every possible respect, and he asked of us things I wouldn't and couldn't go to now. And I think I only just escaped that film with my sanity barely intact."
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gave the film a positive review, praising Żuławski's direction, symbolism, and pacing, writing "mass of symbols and unbridled, brilliant directing meld this disparate tale into a film that could get cult following on its many levels of symbolism and exploitation".
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commented in 2011, "Although it's easy to see why it was pigeonholed as a horror film, its first half presents what is still one of the most viscerally vivid portraits of a disintegrating relationship yet committed to film, comfortably rivalling
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wrote of the film: "Adjani 'creates' a monster, to the consternation of husband Neill, lover Bennent—and the viewer", ultimately deeming the film a "confusing drama of murder, horror, intrigue, though it's all attractively directed".
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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. Extreme but essential viewing." Similarly,
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ensuing shootout. Fleeing on the motorbike, he has a horrific accident and races into a building where he is pursued by Anna, the police, and his business associates. Anna reveals the creature, now fully formed as Mark's
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into an eccentric body horror, almost completely eliminating the main theme of the painful breakdown of marriage. This version was ridiculed by the American press as an example of "a cheap
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Bob alone, unkempt, and neglected. When Anna returns, he stays with Bob, refusing to leave her alone with the child, but attempts to make amends. Anna leaves in the middle of the night.
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ban and was forced to leave Poland. While emigrating, he did not give up on suicidal thoughts, which he had initially been able to get rid of by starting to work on a new film.
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goes to the flat himself, where he finds the creature and his lover's dead body. Anna beats Zimmerman in a rage before stealing his gun and then shooting him to death.
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stated that, while Żuławski displayed talent and the special effects were unforgettable, the film itself was far too serious for its own good. Dennis Schwartz from
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The role was emotionally exhausting for Adjani. In one of the interviews, she stated that it took her several years to recover from her performance, which
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had a modest total of 541,120 admissions in France. In the United States, it was released on 28 October 1983 and grossed $ 1.1 million at the box office.
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of the film featuring the uncut version. This release was available in a standard special edition, as well as a limited edition numbered to 2,000 units.
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to meet him. They worked on the script for the film in New York and Paris while Żuławski was in a state of deep depression. In 1976, he divorced actress
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wearing a maxi-dress and dancing wildly in a pedestrian underpass. Director Ringan Ledwidge acknowledged the influence, calling himself "a huge fan of"
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Made with an international cast in still-divided Berlin, the movie starts as an unusually violent breakup film, takes an extremely yucky turn toward
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The second take was made as a safety net, as is customary when shooting difficult scenes, for example, in case the laboratory spoils the material.
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magazine compared the behavior of her character to the actions of "a dervish of unrestrained emotion and pure sexual terror".
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disconnection of what was once united—but additional intention might have been for the Berlin wall to symbolize the
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was similarly impressed with what he called "an intense exploration of marital breakdown". He argued that this made
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the air. The silhouette of Mark's doppelgänger is seen from the frosted glass door. Helen stares, her eyes shining.
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A month after the Indonesian remake of the film was released in May 2024, an American remake was announced with
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believed the film's initial release in America where it was marketed as a straight horror film and screened in
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Although the film was banned from distribution in the United Kingdom, it was later released uncut on VHS and
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gave the perfect-star rating, and wrote "There are plenty of movies which seem to have been made by madmen.
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award for her performance. The screenplay was written during the painful divorce of Żuławski from actress
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and asked if she would work on a film. After receiving a script about 20 pages long, Thompson suggested
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section of West Berlin. The "surrealist, clean quality" Żuławski wanted for the film was aided by the
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The next morning, they have another hysterical argument during which they both cut themselves with an
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Anna continues her erratic behavior and recounts to Mark a violent miscarriage she suffered in the
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received lukewarm critical response when it was initially released in the summer of 1981.
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animatronic head, assisted in creating the tentacle creature featured in the film.
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gave the film a grade of "C+", calling it " uncompromising demented cult oddity".
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uses powerful acting and disquieting imagery to grapple with complex themes." On
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approximately 50 minutes—may have contributed to the film's incoherency. Writer
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character and does not demand anything from Mark, being an "ideal housewife".
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was $ 2.4 million, and a 12-week shoot was scheduled. The director chose
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Andrzej Żuławski on working with Isabelle Adjani in "Possession" (1981)
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theaters was a mistake, and it should have instead been released in
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Maximilian Rüthlein as Man with pink socks (as Maximilian Ruethlein)
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in 1980. Żuławski's only English-language film, it premiered at the
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writing, directing, and producing through Bad Feeling along with
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The Pleasure and Pain of Cult Horror Films: An Historical Survey
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as the setting for the story because of its proximity to the
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refrigerator. She attacks him and Heinrich flees, bleeding.
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in September 2021 and expanded nationwide on October 15.
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theaters where it would have gained a better reception.
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failed at the box office), Adjani decided to return to
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and has been more positively appraised in later years.
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Poor but Sexy: Culture Clashes in Europe East and West
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The Other Side of The Wall: The Making of POSSESSION
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Epilogue.]. 1835: 1833: 1831: 1829: 1603: 1601: 1570: 1568: 1502: 1456: 1396: 1394: 1392: 1390: 1002:elements of Adjani's character to that of 373:, Anna on the throat and Mark on the arm. 29: 3567:German avant-garde and experimental films 3542:French avant-garde and experimental films 3155:Mazierska, Ewa; Goddard, Michael (2014). 2473: 2160: 2042:"Some Ways of Looking at Isabelle Adjani" 1498: 1496: 1494: 1354: 1301:via his Icki Eneo Arlo banner as well as 1152: 565: 3472:1980s avant-garde and experimental films 3175: 3158:Polish Cinema in a Transnational Context 3121:. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. 2905: 2775: 2578: 2412: 2375: 1910: 1634: 771:, and most of the film was shot next to 569: 3136:Żuławski, Andrzej; Kim, Renata (2011). 3116: 2750: 2545: 2536: 2437: 2260:"Possession de Andrzej Zulawski (1981)" 2091: 1952: 1921:[Scar. Cinema about the Wall]. 1826: 1711: 1598: 1565: 1387: 1039:called it a "confounding masterpiece". 3444: 3094: 3078:Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 3072: 3039: 2893:from the original on 28 September 2023 2878: 2830:from the original on 13 September 2022 2661:"Andrzej Zulawski's Possession, uncut" 2646: 2579:McDonagh, Maitland (2 December 2011). 2548:"'Possession' an Exorcise in Futility" 2415:"Possession – Dennis Schwartz Reviews" 2381: 2293: 2173:from the original on 24 September 2020 2008: 2006: 2004: 1814:from the original on 13 September 2018 1669: 1667: 1665: 1663: 1491: 929:did in the earlier, far better film." 3300: 3210:. John Hunt Publishing. p. 309. 3203: 3161:. 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A&C Black. 2963:from the original on 12 August 2017 2860:from the original on 1 October 2021 2753:"Blu-ray Review: POSSESSION (1981)" 2163:"No Exorcist Can Handle Possession" 2097: 2047:Toronto International Film Festival 2039: 2001: 1660: 1607: 911:wrote, "At times, the living-color 13: 3642:English-language independent films 3512:Films directed by Andrzej Żuławski 3011:Shoffa Salma, Vinny (1 May 2024). 2926:from the original on 7 August 2017 2701:from the original on 18 March 2021 2413:Schwartz, Dennis (5 August 2019). 2394:from the original on 9 August 2019 2317:from the original on 20 March 2018 2021:from the original on 23 March 2018 1787: 1712:Wilkins, Budd (29 November 2011). 1673: 1553:from the original on 9 August 2019 1529: 1423: 1375:from the original on 18 March 2023 808:had its worldwide premiere at the 459:Thomas Frey as Pink socks' acolyte 14: 3653: 3557:French psychological horror films 3517:Films scored by Andrzej Korzyński 3225: 2879:Denney, Alex (26 February 2016). 2546:Baltake, Joe (14 November 1983). 2487:. 13 October 1983. 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Epilog" 1977:Szczypiński, Adrian (2006). 1905:Mazierska & Goddard 2014 1890:Mazierska & Goddard 2014 1334:Also for her performance in 1265:Special Audience Jury Prize 869: 553:Some who have written about 468:Gerd Neubert as Subway drunk 302:and written by Żuławski and 7: 3341:The Third Part of the Night 2850:"Possession (1983) Reviews" 2568:– via Newspapers.com. 2532:– via Newspapers.com. 2402:– via Newspapers.com. 1985:(in Polish). Archived from 1927:(in Russian). No. 10. 1608:Kit, Borys (12 June 2024). 707:(1979) impressed Żuławski. 322:international co-production 10: 3658: 3066: 2659:Sachs, Ben (16 May 2012). 2586:Film Journal International 1768:Film Journal International 1288: 1012:(1979). Tom Huddleston of 800: 62:Adaptation and dialogue by 3537:Films set in West Germany 3335: 2722:"FILM REVIEW: Possession" 2581:"Film Review: Possession" 2512:"'Possession': repulsion" 2419:DennisSchwartzReviews.com 2017:. 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On a slate gray background, a naked woman is seen from the waist up. Tentacles replace her hair, tie her hands behind her back, and run under her breasts.
film poster
Andrzej Żuławski
Frederic Tuten
Isabelle Adjani
Sam Neill
Heinz Bennent
Bruno Nuytten
Andrzej Korzyński
Gaumont
Cannes
psychological horror
drama
Andrzej Żuławski
Frederic Tuten
Sam Neill
Isabelle Adjani
international co-production
West Berlin
34th Cannes Film Festival
Best Actress
Malgorzata Braunek
cult status
spy
West Berlin
espionage
electric knife
subway
doppelgänger
Isabelle Adjani

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