Possession (1981)

Possession: Directed by Andrzej Zulawski. With Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Margit Carstensen, Heinz Bennent. A woman starts exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking her husband for a divorce. Suspicions of infidelity soon give way to something much more sinister.

“The very reason why this film was lambasted by so many people is because it requires the full use of imagination on the part of the viewer. Those who like films to be linear or over-explained (almost 90% of all films and almost 100% of all Hollywood films) will call this film confusing, baffling, hysterical, etc. However, very few directors are able to use cinematic space as Zulawski does in this film. This doesnu0026#39;t appeal to your rational part, itu0026#39;s supposed to connect with you on spiritual or deeply emotional level, itu0026#39;s supposed to appeal to something in you that canu0026#39;t be rationalized or explained verbally. Possession is a piece of pure cinema, no less.”