Possession

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John H @Skyraider 03/10/2025 2025 already. This is not a current movie. In Possession, you are invited into two worlds. Both today’s and also an earlier time where certain relationships were not fashionable. What emerges is a duet of love stories . . . each plausible. Both sets of players could be real, their lives entirely possible in their own periods. The earlier romance somewhat complicated for obvious reasons. The current romance complicated by a society with confused standards at times. You may identify with any of the major characters. I did. With two of them. Scene changes were magical at times, submerged in perfect background music which lifted the plotline throughout. Nice pace. Interesting plotlines. Nicely re-written for the screen. Everything ‘happenable’. And this continued to be exciting until the bitter end. “Bitter’, as you will find, leaving you to clench your fists as the love message is left to the wind. I hesitate to admit that even as a guy, the movie revealed me to be more of a romantic than I expected. I enjoyed this production to the extent that I bought the hardback later. Four stars is an honest appraisal. See more Lanfranco C @Lanfrancobz 07/02/2024 Traveling in the past, but with a little boredom. See more Alec B @Alec97 02/28/2024 A mostly boring romance and mystery. It's a shame that the recurring theft of primary source documents doesn't really go anywhere. See more colin m @RT35044827 01/23/2023 Boring movie retracing the love life of some poet. Uninteresting stuff. See more John H @RT38223448 08/20/2021 2021 now. This is not a current movie. In Possession, you are invited into two worlds. Both today's and also an earlier life where certain relationships, even at that time, were unique. What emerges is a duet of love stories . . . each plausible. Both sets of players could be real, their lives entirely possible in their own times. The earlier romance somewhat complicated for obvious reasons. The recent romance complicated by established and accepted social mores. You may identify with any of the five characters. I did. With two of them. And this continued to be exciting until the bitter end. 'Bitter', as you will find, entirely apropos. I blush to admit that -even as a guy- this movie reveals me to be a hopeless romantic. Thoroughly enjoyed this production to extent that I purchased the hardback book afterwards. Four stars is an honest appraisal. Nice pace. Interesting plotline(s). Nicely re-written for the screen. Everything 'happenable'. See more 03/26/2020 I was drawn to this more from the curiosity of how they would adapt Byatt's source material for the screen, as the novel is essentially a literary detective story relying on uncovered letters from the past, found by scholars in the present, to move along the majority of the plot action. Any director or screenwriter was probably biting off more than they could chew here as it was never going to be easy getting the unique storytelling device used in the novel to create same effect in a 100 minute film. This movie was a reminder and prime example why I don't think it is fair to rate movies based on novels I have previously read. See more Read all reviews

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