Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Delight Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

Julesecosse I liked this film; and had no concerns whatsoever about watching it, despite the relatively low financial return, which I don't understand and also, the relatively mediocre percentage on Rotten Tomatoes, which I also don't comprehend - the latter of which I generally check before watching a movie, the former to see whether it's an indie or not.I guess that this genre is not for everyone; to me it's a Jane Austen with added intrigue or a sophisticated Dan Brown with less intrigue.There is lots of innuendo and suggestion, which unfortunately is generally bluntly explained shortly thereafter; it would possibly have been more interesting to keep it more mysterious and therefore make the viewer think longer than a few seconds.I enjoyed it overall and would recommend it to those of a literary bent, it's not a popcorn flick.

Python Hyena Possession (2002): Dir: Neil LaBute / Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeremy Northam, Lena Headley, Jennifer Ehle: Two movies in one with a theme of influence. Aaron Eckhart plays a literary student trying to piece together several letters written by a Victorian poet. Gwyneth Paltrow assists him and romance blooms. Dwelling on flashbacks is crucial to the story effect. The villains who attempt to sabotage their search serve no purpose. Director Neil LaBute previously made the intriguing dark comedy Nurse Betty, another film about someone inflicted with confusing messages. Here he successful combines romance and mystery within what can be called two films in one. Paltrow pulls off a sympathetic performance as a woman bent on solving a mystery of love yet finding it herself. She plays off her role with intelligence and wit while Echhart is effective as the determined student joining her in the mystery. One benefit is that Paltrow and Eckhart are not involved in a dimwitted rom com. Jeremy Northam, and Jennifer Ehle are superb in Victorian roles whose story effectively parallels the other but in a more tragic sense. Other roles are placed too far in the background to matter. Theme regards power of love and our dictation whether it will flourish or die. Final scene is significant upon how history can be affected by carelessness. Enchanting romance with stunning art direction and spellbinding parallels. Score: 8 ½ / 10

Desertman84 Possession is a romantic and mysterious film based on the novel of the same name by A. S. Byatt.It film tells the story of two scholars, Roland Michell and Maud Bailey, who investigate the affair of fictional Victorian era poet Randolph Henry Ash, described in letters between him and another fictional poet, Christabel LaMotte.The movie stars Aaron Eckhart,Gwyneth Paltrow,Jeremy Northam and Jennifer Ehle.It is written and directed by Neil LaBute.While the film probably won't leave you swooning, it is at least an earnest love letter to its transcendent source.It consists of quality of the acting, and the Brits -- Northam and Ehle -- invest their forbidden love with centuries of fine repressed English tradition.Despite the fact that Gwyneth Paltrow and Aaron Eckhart lead the cast, their performances as modern characters rank second to Jeremy Northam and Jennifer Ehle.Unfortunately,what is supposed to be a deep examination of the transcendence of love and art and poetry turns into another shallow film about how repressed the British are.Aside from acting,there is nothing else about this film as it pass as either an After School Special for adults or a Love Story for the new millennium.Or worse,a closeted comedy.

Pandelis Maud and Roland are brilliantly performed by Paltrow and her fellow lead, however LaMotte and Ash are the ones that will capture at once your interest! I ranked this film with an 8, mainly because I liked it even better than the book itself!!! The core of the story is all there, but the truth is being revealed at a faster and more appealing pace, without the long poems, short stories, diary entries and other literary works (not to mention other subplots) that the novel is full with...The only cost in those omissions were the philosophical battles behind both authors' writings and of course the significance of LaMotte's magnum opus "Melusina" for herself and literature, that is only mentioned once and in a harry at the film by Ash, as "the Fairy Project"...Another point that should be more emphasized in the film would be the various meanings of the title word (possession) as they are used in the book. The main question was whether "we own/possess the ones we love?". Also, the point that Roland started his research by keeping letters that were not in his possession... And..."the letters should belong to the senders or their receivers?" Also... there is a pun with the alternative meaning of "possession", that is "an idea or maybe a feeling that takes possession of your mind, an obsession".I am grateful to the writers that left outside the film some irritating characters, like Roland's fiancée and the two other female scholars (one expert on Ash's wife and another expert on LaMotte)...