{"id":1962,"date":"2012-02-12T00:16:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T06:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ragtagfilm.com\/blog\/?p=1962"},"modified":"2012-02-12T00:16:27","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T06:16:27","slug":"notes-from-the-attic-possession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/notes-from-the-attic-possession\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from the attic: Possession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"IMDb!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0082933\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Possession<\/a> is a 1981 West German film from director\/writer Andrzej Zulawski featuring Sam Neill (of Jurassic Park fame) and Isabelle Adjani, who won Best Actress at Cannes for her performance---and rightly so. She is stunning.<br \/>\nThe most important thing I learned from this film: Do not go off to be some Cold War spy and let your wife get possessed by some nasty demon. It is not pretty.<br \/>\nI won't tell you too much about what happens, but Possession is kind of like Rosemary's Baby meets Antichrist plus Invasion of the Body Snatchers with a Euro-arthouse slant. That's right.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2047\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ragtagcinema.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/poss.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/poss.jpg 648w, https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/poss-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->We are not getting along.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2048\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ragtagcinema.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/poss1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/poss1.jpg 648w, https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/poss1-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Do not get the kitchen staff involved in your argument. You will not win.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2049\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ragtagcinema.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/poss2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/poss2.jpg 648w, https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/poss2-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>New Age mystics are not to be trusted.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2050\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ragtagcinema.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/poss4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/poss4.jpg 648w, https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/poss4-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Isabelle is a knockout.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2051\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ragtagcinema.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/possSW.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/possSW.jpg 648w, https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/possSW-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She can also do crazy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ragtagcinema.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Film_Forum.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"473\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is how I learned about Possession. (The blog post was about Wages of Fear, a film I have not seen but will some day.)<br \/>\nPossession is out of print in the US right now (like a lot of stuff we've been watching in movie club lately) but imports are available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Possession is a 1981 West German film from director\/writer Andrzej Zulawski featuring Sam Neill (of Jurassic Park fame) and Isabelle Adjani, who won Best Actress at Cannes for her performance---and rightly so. She is stunning. The most important thing I learned from this film: Do not go off to be some Cold War spy and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-films","category-opinion"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}