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Feb 13, 2017 · On February 17th, 2016, not two months after his final film was released, Polish director Andrzej Zulawski died of cancer. Cosmos broke a 15-year hiatus for the filmmaker, who hadn’t worked ...
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- Possession (1981) Movie Synopsis & Plot Summary
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Possession takes a disturbing dig at what happens when a marriage is on the verge of crashing and burning and what happens when you let a third party stain the sacred institution of marriage. This movie was shot in West Berlin, which is not a coincidence. West Berlin was still a divided city. It’s a clear metaphor for their marital life. Anna (Isab...
The trauma of loveless marriages:
When Anna struggles to explain why she is no longer happy in their marriage, Mark doesn’t bother trying to understand her side of the thing and escalates matters quickly by yelling and throwing things. Mark’s biggest flaw as a husband is that he fails to make his wife feel seen, heard, and validated. Perhaps this is why she felt loveless and tried to seek love with Heinrich. Furthermore, he neglected his marriage and was away for a long time. Her miscarriage further fuelled her feelings of an...
Passion, Pain, Jealousy, Love, and Desire
Anna’s repressed emotions in terms of passion and desire lead her to cheat on her husband when he is away is one of the reasons for their divorce. Her husband’s jealousy turns him into a violent monster. All her repressed emotions and the turbulent times she has seen in her marriage manifest into the vile thing she gave birth to. Mark’s love for Anna is so obsessive that he sees Anna in Helen. He wants Anna to be sweet, gentle, sensible, and hardworking. At one point, when they harmed themsel...
Complex characters
The title of this movie may confuse people and lead them to think it’s something devilish, like The Exorcist. It’s not a satanic movie. Possession is about how you take ownership of another person’s life. You try to possess someone else. Mark tries to possess Anna, whereas Anna wants to gain control of her own life. Mark is an unreliable narrator who shows Anna in a poor light. It’s only when we see things from Anna’s perspective that we find out Mark is as much at fault here for the downfall...
The film ends in an unpredictable way. Heinrich finds Mark and tells him about the monster and Anna. Mark doesn’t believe it, and they end up having a fight again. Mark kills Heinrich using the lid of the public toilet and shoves his face inside it. After killing Heinrich, Mark reaches her apartment and sets it on fire because he doesn’t want anyon...
Feb 18, 2016 · Ralph Gatti/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images. Andrzej Zulawski, a Polish director who blended surrealism, horror and psychic excess in the emotionally savage films “The Important Thing Is ...
May 5, 2014 · The great Ukraine born Polish director Andrzej Zulawski may have ‘only’ 14 films to his credit as director, but they form one of the most ferociously original canon’s of world cinema, marked by formal and thematic experimentation and a keen sense of humanity on the edge of social chaos. His films almost always focus on singular characters or couples but also reflect broader political and ...
Feb 21, 2016 · Last modified on Thu 22 Feb 2018 13.52 EST. Andrzej Żuławski, who has died of cancer aged 75, was one of the rare breed of film directors who refuse to compromise their singular vision for ...
Andrzej Żuławski ( Polish: [ˈandʐɛj ʐuˈwafskʲi]; 22 November 1940 – 17 February 2016) was a Polish film director and writer best known for his 1981 film Possession. Żuławski often went against mainstream commercialism in his films, and enjoyed success mostly with European art-house audiences. In the late 1950s, he studied cinema in ...
