Possession

Possession

The past will connect them. The passion will possess them.

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Release Date

8/16/2002

Runtime

102 mins

Overview

Maud Bailey, a brilliant English academic, is researching the life and work of poet Christabel La Motte. Roland Michell is an American scholar in London to study Randolph Henry Ash, now best-known for a collection of poems dedicated to his wife. When Maud and Roland discover a cache of love letters that appear to be from Ash to La Motte, they follow a trail of clues across England, echoing the journey of the couple over a century earlier.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$25,000,000

Revenue

$10,113,733

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A layered romantic mystery where two scholars become entranced by the hidden love story they're uncovering, blurring the line between research and desire. The film moves between past and present as obsession with a century-old passion gradually consumes the investigators themselves.

Mood

WistfulRomanticContemplativeBittersweet

Themes

LoveObsessionArt and creationMemory

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

NaturalisticPainterly

Structure

Framed flashback

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