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<-- back Easily the most memorable two hours of cinema ever shot in Kreuzberg (*),  Andrzej Zulawski's "Possession" follows the disintegrating marriage of Anna  (Isabelle Adjani) and Mark (Sam Neill) "like a fast-forwarded Ingmar Bergman  film on bad acid" (rogerebert.com) through the subway stations and side streets  of SO36 in 1980, along the Antifascist Protection Wall -- which at the time,  conveniently, also kept backpackers, party tourists and real estate developers  at bay -- all the way to Sebastianstraße 87, where a bloodbath begins to unfold  that even for its survivors would remain a life-changing event: Zulawski's film  was banned for 15 years in the UK (and never released in Germany until 2009),  Isabelle Adjani won the Best Actress award in Cannes for her performance, and  the octopus she has sex with towards the end of the film made such a splash  that the guy who designed it would one year later score the job to create E.T. Anna's and Mark's rapidly deteriorating existence -- where to draw the line  between household accidents and domestic violence? how to tell the difference  between an abbatoir and just a messy apartment? and where exactly does public  indecency end and dangerous interference with road traffic begin? -- provides  for a series of highly iconic scenes of picture-perfect West-Berlin desolation  that make for an exceptionally authentic and period-accurate Heimatfilm. Yet  seen from today's point of view, the inner and outer void that the English- speaking, single-income, one-child and upwardly mobile (even if only in  the last scene) couple inhabits, and the way their personal disaster remains  strangely detached from the ruin of the city, seems to foreshadow the even more  depressing reality of Kreuzberg loft life in the 2010s. If we had to remake the  film today, we'd set it 100 meters further north, Dresdner Ecke Waldemar. (*) and occasionally beyond -- for a comprehensive photo tour and map, see www.spectacularoptical.ca/2014/02/the-psychotronic-tourist-possession-1981/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------                                                                       possession                                                                 andrzej zulawski                                                             1981 123 min 4.69 gb                                                                           sunday                                                                          july 26                                                                             9 pm                                                             prⅳate cinema berlin                                                                 saal 2 kreuzberg                                                                 u kottbusser tor                                                                   12 seats, rsvp                                                           first come first serve                                                        location in separate mail                                                                        trailers:                                       www.piratecinema.org/trailers/#20150726-01                                       www.piratecinema.org/trailers/#20150726-02 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------          ()          >< prⅳate cinema berlin www.piratecinema.org <-- back