This week at your local nonprofit independent cinema we welcome two very different portraits of relationships \u2014 one thoroughly charming, and another thoroughly horrifying. Such is the duality of life and love, so let\u2019s get into it.
French director Mia Hansen-L\u00f8ve\u2019s first English-language film, Bergman Island, <\/em>is a nod to the imminitable auteur Ingmar Bergman. Rather than attempt an out-and-out tribute to the Swedish master\u2019s style, Hansen-L\u00f8ve situates her romantic-drama on the island of F\u00e5r\u00f6, Bergman\u2019s isolated home and primary working location, tapping the late director\u2019s well of inspiration to tell a story in her own unique voice. Bergman Island<\/em>\u2019s characters, a filmmaking couple portrayed by Vickie Krieps and Tim Roth, head to F\u00e5r\u00f6 in search of the same creative spark that Mia Hansen-L\u00f8ve clearly sought, and the result is a self-reflexive, dreamlike rumination on love and artistic expression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Riding its infamous reputation, Possession<\/em> arrived in the American late-night circuit of the 1980s in a heavily edited cut, losing nearly a third of its runtime and stripped of its headier psychological elements, and presented as nothing more than an eccentric body-horror. Finally, the good people at Metrograph Pictures commissioned a stunning restoration of Possession <\/em>in all of its original, unnerving glory, yielding true cinematic delirium at its most intoxicating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n L\u00f8ve,Ted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello cinema friends, This week at your local nonprofit independent cinema we welcome two very different portraits of relationships \u2014 one thoroughly charming, and another thoroughly horrifying. Such is the duality of life and love, so let\u2019s get into it.French director Mia Hansen-L\u00f8ve\u2019s first English-language film, Bergman Island, is a nod to the imminitable auteur […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[67,112,113,114,69],"class_list":["post-10590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news1","tag-cinema","tag-independent","tag-mia-hansen-love","tag-nonprofit","tag-programmer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Forty years before Bergman Island<\/em>, a very different film about couple-dom also premiered at Cannes. Polish art-house director Andrzej ?u?awski unleashed a smoldering vision of marital breakdown with Possession. With it, the film\u2019s female lead, Isabelle Adjani took the Best Actress prize for her otherworldly performance. Following Cannes, the film arrived on screens in the UK and was swifty banned as one of the notorious \u201cVideo Nasties\u201d charged with corrupting Thatcher\u2019s polite society (astute cinema friends will recall Censor<\/em>\u2019s homage to these forbidden flicks).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/possession-newsletter-700x420.jpg\")
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