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

[Momò Nin]

why:
reading and watching from the dead people is always interesting? :)

yes The Devil and On the Silver Globe is very good haha

On 21 February 2016 at 23:41, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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