POSSESSION
Directed and Written by
Andrzej Zulawski
In Europe they take their movies seriously. Evenno, especiallythe silly ones.
It is not enough for a cineast just to make a horror picture about a young woman who literally gives birth to her nightmares, then copulates with the beast. The film must also be an up-front metaphor for the cosmic anomie of Western civ, and, to boot, a bilious satire on the smugness of the nuclear family.
This French-West German co-production was filmed in English in 1981 by a Polish emigre and stars an Australian (Sam Neill),...