Re: RIP Andrzej Żuławski, director of the insanely great Possession

[rich]

The Devil and On the Silver Globe are also outstanding.

rich

On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 6:17 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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."
>
> http://culture.pl/en/artist/andrzej-zulawski
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