Last time we went to the gugge, we were behind a very posh older British lady in the gift shop who pointed at Kandinsky socks and said “Kandinsky really looks much better on socks than a canvas, it’s unfortunate really” and now I can’t stop quoting her.
The singularity of Possession inheres in the circumstances of its inception. It wasn’t just designed to provoke the audience. Żuławski began working as he was going through a divorce and that turmoil bled directly into the film that’s so visceral. How does one even attempt to replicate that?
Ryan Coogler will win a directing/picture Oscar in 20 years when the academy thinks he “has done enough”. Just like PTA should have gotten one for Magnolia or Phantom Thread, not OBAA.