Year:
2002
Studio:
Warner Brothers Pictures, USA Films
Movie:
2/5
DVD:
2/5
Possession is a
slow moving film set in Britain. Two scholars, Roland (Aaron Eckhart)
and Maud (Gwyneth Paltrow), delve into the past as they search for
clues of a heretofore unknown secret romance between Elizabethan
England poets Randolph Henry Ash (Jeremy Northam) and Christabel
Lamotte (Jennifer Ehle).
This is an rather slow moving film, based on a best-selling British
novel. We follow the two couples: the scholars finding more clues and
the poets acting it out. There are more secrets revealed. The whole
affair of the two poets reflects on the relationship between the two
scholars, who only met as a result of this finding.
I found the film quite boring. The whole poet romance is so prim and
proper. Meanwhile the two scholars are also being rather British even
though the male is an American. And then to inject a bit of excitement
into the film we have a subplot where a couple of modern scholars want
to find the secret papers for their own selfish reasons.
It's just not a movie that appealed to me. I guess you have to be a fan
of Gwyneth Paltrow or the book or of British period pieces. There is a
commentary track by director Neil Labute (which is also rather
droning). He points out a couple of places where he didn't do it as
Hollywood would do it in order to make it more real. But it also makes
it uninteresting. I don't recommend seeing this film.
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