Possession | 
 enlarge | Director: Neil Labute
Actors: Gwyneth Paltrow, Aaron Eckhart, Jeremy Northam, Jennifer Ehle, Lena Headey
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 102
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5 x 0.6
MPN: MCAD22403D
ISBN: 0783273355
UPC: 025192240324
EAN: 9780783273358
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
Release Date: February 11, 2003
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Two literary researches both discover a romantic relationship between two victorian poets at the same time. In an effort to beat the other one to press they find that they arecast under the same amorous spell. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 01/06/2004 Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow Jeremy Northam Run time: 102 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Neil Labute
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Modern love and classic romantic passion meet in this lush adaptation of A.S. Byatt's brilliant novel. Academics Roland Michell (Aaron Eckhart) and Maud Bailey (Gwyneth Paltrow) are experts on the work of two different Victorian poets. As they pursue a possible connection between their subjects, the two sleuths begin to stumble toward a romance of their own. Though it necessarily loses some of the depth of Byatt's original, Possession is a worthy adaptation, faithful to the book in both story and spirit. Director Neil LaBute uses clever and visually elegant methods of switching back and forth between time periods, subtly contrasting the prickly moderns and the swoony Victorians without making either pair seem unappealing. The movie also does an excellent job of capturing the exhilaration (and the politics) of intellectual discovery, and feels truly romantic without ever getting icky. Though Paltrow and Eckhart both succeed as the modern leads, the real standouts are Jeremy Northam as Randolph Henry Ash and Jennifer Ehle as Christabel LaMotte. Their passion gives the movie its romantic core and makes the whole search worthwhile. --Ali Davis
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 AN ELEGANTLY STYLISH ROMANCE December 6, 2008
POSSESSION is a wonderful blending of the joy of discovery, sweeping romance, and subtle mystery. Jeremy Northram and Jennifer Ehle are brilliant as the two star-crossed Victorian, poets. Their love story is discovered by two present-day researchers ( Gwyneth Paltrow, and Aaron Eckhart ), and as they uncover more about the Victorians, and are steadily drawn into the world of the poets, and their exquisitely, understated passion, they in turn, begin to fall in love.
This could have been a truly saccharine mess, but instead is almost as lush, and rewarding as a poem by Keats. Neil LaBute's direction is sure, the settings resonate with color, and the costuming is superb.
Captivating movie September 14, 2008
I just want to say that I agree with most of the reviewers here that it is a brilliant movie with equally brilliant actors. Captivating from beginning to end. Highly recommended.
Captivating Movie August 27, 2008
I stumbled upon this movie while I was looking up Jennifer Ehle acting career. I do love her in Pride and Prejudice. This movie was well written and directed. Jennifer Ehle and Jeremy Northam (another fav of mine) were wonderful in this film and the chemistry was beautiful. I actually watched my rental twice!! I do believe I'm going to purchase this video for my private collection.
 POSSESSION April 24, 2008
POSSESSION (1999), set in England and starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Aaron Eckhart, Jeremy Northam, and Jennifer Ehle, is an interwoven tale connecting the past with the present. Director Neil LaBute does a terrific job of mixing a period piece with contemporary times, weaving it into a seamless work of art. Based on the novel by A.S. Byatt, the film delineates the tale of two academic poets in contemporary London who set out to discover secrets of the past that are intricately tied to the present. In their search for the truth, the couple in the present piece together a love story from the past. In doing so, they find that they also serve a vital piece of history in the making.
Undiscovered gem December 20, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
A Film I first saw in a little independent cinema in the Somerset city of Bath, expecting nothing, but finding my heart bursting from its seams as the film unfolded.
A young American apprentice (Aaron Eckhart) finds himself amongst the snobbery of English literature circles, struggling for a space in the sun of acknowledgement, when he discovers secret love letters written by a Victorian poet (Jeremy Northam). Our American apprentice teams up with an English scholar (Gwyneth Paltrow), and they find themselves falling in love as the Victorian love story of the poet and his secret lover unfolds.
Possession is a tender and beautiful film: both love stories - modern and Victorian - interwoven and wonderfully performed by Eckhart, Paltrow, Northam and Ehle; its cinematography and costume design painting it beautifully, and finished off in Gabriel Yared's moving score.
It is one of my all time favourites.
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