An interesting notion of "saints"!
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I deeply love this film. After reading this topic I thought that this film is very carnal. But every person in this film shows that he don't know what it means. They even seem like saints.

I thought so too.
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yes its a masterpiece

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"This film is a curious little oddity, but most certainly not a masterpiece by any stretch of imagination. For one thing, the acting is simply awful. Adjani gives one of the most annoyingly grating performances of all time. She either screams or throws herself about like a lunatic in every scene she's in, showing all the range of a baboon in heat. Sam Neil isn't much better, veering as he does between bewilderment and insanity and back again with absolutely nothing in between.
It doesn't work as a horror due to the utter absence of suspense, but neither does it work as an effective marital break-up drama, lacking the gravitas and subtlety needed for such an undertaking. The dialogue is embarrassingly inane and provides no insight whatsoever. Furthermore, there's no arc or pacing of any sort. The characters are as hysterical and nutty at the start as they are at the end and we never develop any empathy or understanding for them. 127 minutes is far too long to expect us to put up with such ridiculous histrionics. I can see how the film may have actually benefited from the wholesale cuts in the American version.
Another big problem is that it's not well photographed and its visuals are extremely bland. There's no effective lighting or contrast, and for all of Zulawski's odd angles and restless camera-work, its aesthetic remains exceptionally plain and off-putting. There's simply no atmosphere of any sort. It looks like an average TV movie.
It's kind of frustrating, because there are some good ideas floating beneath the surface. The doppelganger concept is interesting and the monster copulation and subway miscarriage are appropriately icky and surreal."
My vote for dumbest beep I've ever read on IMDB.

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Yes, idiots do find most things amusing.

You're an idiot, my friend.
And
So what you're saying is FoxNews controls the thoughts an minds of all modern culture and is attempting to subvert the analysis of a 30 year old French film?
Most amusing.
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So what you're saying is FoxNews controls the thoughts an minds of all modern culture and is attempting to subvert the analysis of a 30 year old French film?
And that you've somehow personally ascended beyond that and therefore are intellectually superior to anyone who disagrees with you or doesn't share your same ideologies.
Furthermore, once a film is given an award such as the D'Or it is unimpeachable from than point forward.
You're an idiot, my friend.

my thoughts exactly
someone throwing themselves around and screaming..
If you thought that was good acting, then my 5 year old could win an oscar..

That's the sort of review that could only happen in the era of Fox News, when everyone suddenly feels entitled to their own reality, whether it has any connection to actual reality or not.
On this other Foxworld, in this strange other version of POSSESSION, Isabelle Adjani's work "is simply awful" and "one of the most annoyingly grating performances of all time"; in the real world, the performance earned her best actress honors from both the Cannes film festival and the Caesar Awards (the French Academy Awards). On Foxworld, this version of POSSESSION "looks like an average TV movie," which means television in Foxworld is a
hell
of a lot better than in the real one; in the real one, the film put director Zulawski in competition for the Palm D'Or at Cannes, the festival's highest honor. I feel sorry for the people in Foxworld; by being there, they've managed to miss a great movie.
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This film is a curious little oddity, but most certainly not a masterpiece by any stretch of imagination. For one thing, the acting is simply awful. Adjani gives one of the most annoyingly grating performances of all time. She either screams or throws herself about like a lunatic in every scene she's in, showing all the range of a baboon in heat. Sam Neil isn't much better, veering as he does between bewilderment and insanity and back again with absolutely nothing in between.
It doesn't work as a horror due to the utter absence of suspense, but neither does it work as an effective marital break-up drama, lacking the gravitas and subtlety needed for such an undertaking. The dialogue is embarrassingly inane and provides no insight whatsoever. Furthermore, there's no arc or pacing of any sort. The characters are as hysterical and nutty at the start as they are at the end and we never develop any empathy or understanding for them. 127 minutes is far too long to expect us to put up with such ridiculous histrionics. I can see how the film may have actually benefited from the wholesale cuts in the American version.
Another big problem is that it's not well photographed and its visuals are extremely bland. There's no effective lighting or contrast, and for all of Zulawski's odd angles and restless camera-work, its aesthetic remains exceptionally plain and off-putting. There's simply no atmosphere of any sort. It looks like an average TV movie.
It's kind of frustrating, because there are some good ideas floating beneath the surface. The doppelganger concept is interesting and the monster copulation and subway miscarriage are appropriately icky and surreal.

Yes.
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Zulawski is now one of my top 5 favorite directors. Another Horror film he made that was sadly overlooked was Diabel (The Devil). That film is evil incarnate. The print for the Polarts dvd is of course terrible, but you should check it out nonetheless. Mondo Vision has the rights to release Diabel, and if you know Mondo Vision, you know that they will do justice to the film. The problem is that they will release the film sometime in 2013. Oh, well.
Mondo Vision is planning on releasing On A Silver Globe this year! Amazing! And I haven't even seen the film yet!

At this point, I don't remember why I brought it up. I'd probably have to look though all the posts to remember why that made sense.

A great movie, to be sure. Not sure how it ties into POSSESSION, though.
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Why hasn't anyone mentioned Matthew Bright's 'Freeway.'

Another one to add to your list:
Jess Franco's SUCCUBUS (1968). Makes a nice companion piece to POSSESSION. It's also about a "possessed" woman, it doesn't make a whole lotta sense if you take the plot at face value and it was also filmed in Berlin!
A gem, to be sure! I'm not sure it really works as a "companion piece to POSSESSION, but it is a somewhat similar theme, and a damn good movie.
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Another one to add to your list:
Jess Franco's SUCCUBUS (1968). Makes a nice companion piece to POSSESSION. It's also about a "possessed" woman, it doesn't make a whole lotta sense if you take the plot at face value and it was also filmed in Berlin!