Possession (DVD)

...I had never heard of Possession before but as it wasn't too long. I settled down one afternoon whilst my better half was at work and decided to give it a go. Here's what I found out. This film starts with a shot of a lonely looking man walking through what appears to be a meadow wearing very old fashioned clothes, we later find that this is Randolph Henry Ash. This scene seems a bit odd as the subsequent ones are set in the present day. Roland Michell ...
...was again noticed after directing Possession in 2002. Throughout his career he has worked with some big stars, Rene Zellweger in 'Nurse Betty', Gwyneth Paltrow in 'Possession, and many more. Overall I thought that the direction of this film was satisfactory, not amazing and certainly not terrible but somewhere in the middle. I think the transition between book and film may have lowered the overall intensity of this story. So much has been crammed ...

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It might have been an intriguing premise on paper: a secret love affair between poets from a century and a half ago casts a spell on a modern day couple amid the latter’s sleuthing about said affair. Based on A.S. Byatt’s novel of the same name, ‘Possession’ was apparently intended as a love story-cum-detective mystery. While I did spot a few mysteries in the film, they had little to do with the plot itself (see later). With this film, US director ...
...find amusing: he has converted a potentially multidimensional drama of romantic secrets into a flat, two-dimensional portrait of tedium. The book, I suspect, is better. The film opens with American Roland Mitchell. During his stint as a research student at the British Museum, Roland makes what seems to be a significant discovery, in terms of history, literature and possible monetary gain, while thumbing through a London Library book once owned by ...

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Adopted from A. S. Byatt prize winner novel, "Possession" is an intimate, heart-warming, and easy to watch film. Roland Michell (Aaron Eckhart), an American research assistant struggling to be accepted within the English academic circle, realises his luck might be about to change when he comes across compromising letters written by the highly acclaimed Victorian poet, Randolph Henry Ash (Jeremy Northan). If his suspicions prove right, all studies ...
...Eager to find more, Roland seeks help from Dr. Maud Bailey (Gwyneth Paltrow), an academic teaching at Lincoln University. Maud is a specialist in Christabel LaMotte’s (Jennifer Ehle) work, an understated Victorian writer, who Roland suspects might have had some untold connections with Ash. Despite Maud’s initial scepticism to Roland’s theories, he challenges her enough to convince her to embark on a “wild goose chase”, as she puts it. Together they ...

lazuli77 23.08.2004 (28.08.2004) · Read full review
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