Possession

Possession

2002 · 102 min · EN · PG-13 · 5.9 (157 votes)
Dir. Neil LaBute · Starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Aaron Eckhart, Jeremy Northam, Jennifer Ehle, Lena Headey, Holly Aird · Music Gabriel Yared

The past will connect them. The passion will possess them.

DramaMysteryRomance

Maud Bailey, a brilliant English academic, is researching the life and work of poet Christabel La Motte. Roland Michell is an American scholar in London to study Randolph Henry Ash, now best-known for a collection of poems dedicated to his wife. When Maud and Roland discover a cache of love letters that appear to be from Ash to La Motte, they follow a trail of clues across England, echoing the journey of the couple over a century earlier.

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A quiet, scholarly romance that feels like getting lost in a dusty library. It's a film for those who love the thrill of literary discovery and the echo of past passions across time.

intellectualromanticmelancholicwistfulslow-burnperiod dramaliterary adaptationacademicatmosphericloveobsessionliterary historypast lives
based on novel or book
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