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"It's a strange world, isn't it..."
One of motifs of the late David Lynch's film is what lies beyond the surface of what we see. In Twin Peaks, it's the life of the perfect teenage girl. In the Elephant Man, it's the man behind all the bodily disfigurements. In Mulholland Drive, it's the reality of the American Dream. And in Blue Velvet it's white-picketed fenced America. As we are shown imagines of a this right at the start and go…
Infamously put on the video nasties list in the early 80s, Possession is intense film experience. Like Cronenberg's The Blood, Writer/Director Andrzej Żuławski wrote the film during or in the aftermath of a bitter divorce. Set in West Berlin (to which plenty of shots of the Wall are shown, often with guards looking threw binoculars) Sam Neill and Isabella Adjani are Mark and Anna who are the end of their marriage. What follows is intense (one might think OTT acting)…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Kieslowski's final part of Three Colours Trilogy and ultimately his final film. The theme of fraternité (based on the French moto which the previous two Blue and White (liberté & égalité) also follow) Irene Jacob plays Valentine, a part-time model and student in Geneva, who after accidently running over a dog, takes it back to it's owner a retired judge Joesph (Jean-Louis Trintignant) who is a curmudgeon and spying on his neighbours. Although having nothing in common, both come to have…
