Possession
1981 · TMDB 7.3
Directed by Andrzej Żuławski
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.
Why it matters
Andrzej Zulawski's feverish horror about a woman's descent into madness and monstrous infidelity in Cold War Berlin, a film of raw emotion and body horror that defies easy description.
From The Hypnotic Gaze
- Runtime
- 124 min
- Released
- 1981-05-27
- Studio
- Gaumont
- Country
- France
- Language
- English
- TMDB score
- 7.3
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The Hypnotic Gaze
Position 7 of 8
Andrzej Zulawski's feverish horror about a woman's descent into madness and monstrous infidelity in Cold War Berlin, a film of raw emotion and body horror that defies easy description.
The Mother Who Comes Back Wrong
Position 4 of 8
Andrzej Zulawski's Berlin-set breakdown, in which a husband (Sam Neill) returns to find his wife (Isabelle Adjani) changed, and a creature in her flat that may be the child of her affair or something worse.
The Architecture of Obsession: Cinema of the Fixated Mind
Position 6 of 8
Żuławski's deranged psychodrama about a woman's affair with a grotesque, tentacled creature, and her husband's obsessive pursuit of the truth. The film's frantic handheld camera, jarring cuts, and visceral performances create a world where interior states bleed into reality; the...
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