POSSESSION
1981 / Bleeding Light Film Group / 127 minutes / Directed by: Andrzej Zulawski
Monday, April 22 - 7:30PM Aero Theatre
In this controversial, unclassifiable cult film, secret agent Mark (Sam Neill) reunites with Anna (Isabelle Adjani) and their young son only to be asked for a divorce. But it’s not because his wife has been seeing another man - when Mark hires a private investigator to follow her, he learns she’s been spending time with a strange, tentacled creature (designed by famed special effects artist Carlo Rambaldi). Director Andrzej Zulawski was in the midst of his own difficult divorce when he came up with this nightmarish mix of domestic distress, bloody violence and bio-horror. Adjani’s performance in dual roles (she also plays Anna’s doppelgänger, Helen) earned a César as well as a Best Actress award at Cannes.“POSSESSION starts on a hysterical note, stays there and surpasses it as the film progresses.” – Variety
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