Possession (1981): Zulawski's Divorce as Apocalypse

Fri, 21 Nov 2014 09:00:00 +0000

There is a kind of film you cannot recommend without a warning and cannot forget once you have seen it, and Andrzej Zulawski’s Possession (1981) is the reigning example. For decades it was hard to see at all, banned in Britain during the video-nasty panic, circulated on grey-market tapes cut to ribbons, mythologised by the people who had endured it. Time and a proper restoration have done it justice, and the film that emerges is not the exploitation curio its reputation suggested. It is one of the most harrowing accounts of a marriage ending ever committed to film, and it happens to contain a monster.

Andrzej Zulawski - vo.rs

Possession (1981): Zulawski's Divorce as Apocalypse