L'Étrange Festival - XXIInd edition - September 7 - 18 2016
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Possession poster Possession
Possession poster

Possession

Possession - 1981 - Color - 124 mn - Original version with French subtitles - France, Germany - Fantasy
Direction : Andrzej Zulawski. Production : Marie-Laure Reyre. Screenplay : Andrzej Zulawski, Frederic Tuten. Editing : Marie-Sophie Dubus, Suzanne Lang-Willar. Photography : Bruno Nuytten. Music by : Andrzej Korzyński. With : Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Margit Carstensen.

As her husband Mark just got back in Berlin, Anna decides to leave him. Not for someone else, but something else : possessed by a creature, she will quickly sink into madness.

Possession is most likely Żuławski’s masterpiece. Back in Poland after the failure of The silver globe, he writes this multi-faceted script « in two months in New York, drinking the cheapest bourbon ». Playing opposite Sam Neil and the amazing creatures made by sculptor Carlo Rambaldi (ET, King Kong), Isabelle Adjani delivers a haunting and hysterical performance, awarded by several prizes.

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Sunday 11 September 2016 - 16:15 - Showroom 300 - Presented by Marie-Laure Reyre, Andrzej Korzynski, Andrzej Jaroszewicz and Daniel Bird - Screening in partnership with Fixafilm, l'Institut Polonais de Paris and Studio Filmowe Kadr