RIP Andrzej Żuławski, director of the insanely great Possession

[John Bailey]

And you know I had to copy and paste that name.

"After losing his right to work in Poland at the end of the 1970s and
his marriage to Małgorzata Braunek fell apart, he went to New York
with the aim of committing suicide. Andy Warhol talked him out of it
and within ten days, in 1981, Żuławski wrote the screenplay for
Possession – the film for which he is best known, especially in the
US. A portrait of a marriage in painful dissolution, 'Possession is a
cry, a long howl from the depths of the soul, which gets relieved -
when least expected - as a result of peace and quiet' says cinema
expert Max Tessier. As Wall Street Journal's Kristin M. Jones puts it,
'Like movies by David Lynch or Roman Polański, Mr. Żuławski's work
addresses love, madness and troubled relationships, but his approach
to storytelling and his cosmology of personal, political and biblical
allusions are all his own.' His fondness for the use of recurring
themes, details and doppelgangers across multiple films as well as
sudden intrusions of humor in the most horrific scenes becomes very
apparent in Possession."

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