7. Possession (Andrzej Zulawski, 1981)
This is quite
possibly the most bizarre film on this whole list. With a tone that
could only be described as hysterical, it would have placed much higher
on the list if it actually made sense. Despite the fact that it played
In Competition at Cannes with Isabelle Adjani winning Best Actress at
both Cannes and the French Cesars, Possession remains a film that
probably only the director himself understood.
The main story
is about the disintegration of a marriage between Mark and Anna, but
hints of a political allegory also taking place frequently surface in
the form of Mark’s vaguely explained job (and some shenanigans involving
pink socks), the film’s setting in Berlin and the very frequent
sighting of the Wall and its guards each time a character looks out the
window.
But even
without managing to figure out what the hell is going on, Possession is a
WTF movie of the highest order, with character psychology going from
calm to mental in a manner of seconds, punctuated by endless shrieking
matches between the couple or between Mark and one of Anna’s lovers
Heinrich (a lothario who’s alternately macho and effeminate, played with
superbly memorable overacting by Heinz Bennent), not to mention Anna’s
other lover, a tentacled creature that looks like an octopus.
With so many
show-stopping WTF moments, the crown jewel (which surely clinched
Adjani’s Best Actress prizes) is undoubtedly the scene where Anna
spectacularly freaks out like a woman possessed in the subway tunnels,
having some sort of miscarriage with blood and goo coming out of her
ears and body in the process. Unforgettable.
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