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TITULO ORIGINAL Possession
AÑO 1981
DURACIÓN 80 min
PAÍS Francia
DIRECTOR Andrzej Zulawski
GUIÓN Andrzej Zulawski & Frederic Tuten
MUSICA Andrzej Korzynski
FOTOGRAFÍA Bruno Nuytten
REPARTO Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Margit Carstensen, Heinz Bennent, Johanna Hofer, Carl Duering, Shaun Lawton
PRODUCTORA Coproducción Fr-Alemania.
GÉNERO Y CRÍTICA Terror / Incluye algunas de las escenas más tremendas e inquietantes del moderno cine de horror.
PREMIOS
Grand Prize - the Trieste Festival of Fantasy Films (Italy, 1981)
Critics Award - the São Paulo International Film Festival (Brazil, 1981)
Best Actress (Isabelle Adjani) - the Cannes International Film Festival (France, 1981)
Best Actress (Isabelle Adjani) - César Award (France, 1982)
Best Actress (Isabelle Adjani) - the Fantasporto International Film Festival (Porto, Portugal, 1983)
COMENTARIOS Y CRÍTICAS:
"Pic may disconcert audiences and lead to nervous titters. Still, its 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. Despite its shrillness, it does make for a fest item, albeit pros and cons will ensue. Zulawski needs to curb his penchant to treat too many themes and achieve a balance of characterization and narrative clarity before his obvious filmic talents can take full flight. One can go on trying to unravel this overdone tale that misses by sheer overstatement but still hangs around one's mind after viewing." - Variety
"Zulawski's stated aim was to take the stuff of soap opera and push it up a few notches, and for a spectator prepared to make that journey, the power of his direction lies in his conviction that cinema occupies an imaginative space in which energy and emotion at full throttle will make you believe. Possession is a film about the desire for married partners to possess each other, to know each other, and how that desire taken to neurotic extremes results in the unleashing of a suppressed, demonic side." - David Thompson, Sight and Sound
"Possession is clangorous and discordant, full of wild verbal excesses borne of desperation, the way people feel when no matter how passionate, how quick-witted or understanding or open-minded they are, they fear that all is in vain. Rows between Anna and Marc are brilliantly observed episodes of total communication prolapse, verbal and even physical violence are expended but to no avail. That no decoding strategy can redistribute the film's wild energies, lock its loose ends into solid coherence, only ensures that it remains breathtaking at each repeated viewing. It's also a very beautiful film, with Zulawski's most audacious and creative use of the camera making each scene resonate. There are literally no boring shots in this film, no wasted spaces, no tedious or careless set-ups. Whilst the actors create maximum tension with the extraordinary script, Bruno Nuytten's camera seduces and transforms. Never again would Sam Neill look as he does here, strange and tormented. And Adjani is so mercurial at times only a freeze frame can keep up with the shifts of expression coursing through her features." - Stephen Thrower, Eyeball
"A nonsensical narrative and preposterous psychology relegate this glossy Franco-German creature feature to the lower depth of the recent diabolist cycle. Eccentrically acted all round - except for Adjani whose performance simply soars way over the top - and exasperatingly filmed in a nauseous mixture of odd-angled shots and giddy tracking sequences, the movie turns the screw on its viewers with some of the most impressively repulsive special effects of recent years." - Martyn Auty, Monthly Film Bulletin
[Editado el 16/6/2003 por LauRíSTiCa]
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