A 52 minute documentary film about the making of Andrzej Zulawski's Possession. Featuring director Andrzej Zulawski, producer Marie-Laure Re...
A 52 minute documentary film about the making of Andrzej Zulawski's Possession. Featuring director Andrzej Zulawski, producer Marie-Laure Reyre, cameraman Andrzej Jaroszewicz and co-writer Frederic Tuten. Also features artwork by Enki Bilal and music by Ashtray Navigations.nnA co-production with BILDSTÖRUNG.nn"Bird's superb 50-minute documentary The Other Side of the Wall, which intersperses the history of the production with a great deal of analysis and exploration of the political/historical context (especially the Berlin Wall as a metaphor for the situation in Zulawski's native Poland at the time), helpful digressions (Zulawski's earlier films are quoted, as are Enki Bilal's comic-strip metamorphoses of the Wall), and some great stories"n-Michael Brooke, Sight and Soundnn"[Possession] is a film that will leave a much deeper intellectual and aesthetic (as opposed to emotional) impression if one watches the accompanying 'making of' documentary first"n-David Parkinson, Oxford Timesnn"This is a highly enjoyable and informative 51-minute documentary from 2009 narrated by Daniel Bird. Zulawski is on hand to offer his thoughts on his early career, his exile from Poland and the political motivations for making POSSESSION... Interspersed with clips from the film and interviews with producers, it's a great documentary"n-Stuart Willis, Sex Gore Mutantsnn"A piece all about the making of the movie that runs to just over 50 minutes in length (almost half the running time of the movie itself)... it's all fascinating stuff and invaluable to anyone picking apart the movie and exploring the different themes and the choices made throughout"n-Kevin Matthews, Flick Feastnn"In the making-of documentary accompanying this long-awaited, thankfully uncut reissue of Polish director Andrzej Zulawski's astounding, apocalyptic 1981 marital psychodrama, the director discusses this most infamous scene: 'I told Adjani,' he says frankly, 'to fuck the air'"n-Tom Huddleston, Time Outnn"This is as good and thorough an examination of the making of a film and the circumstances of its production as you could ever hope to see, with the political backdrop and the personal turmoil that went into its creation all covered in excellent detail"n-Horror Viewnn"A piece all about the making of the movie that runs to just over 50 minutes in length (almost half the running time of the movie itself)... it's all fascinating stuff and invaluable to anyone picking apart the movie and exploring the different themes and the choices made throughout"n-Kevin Matthews, Flick Feastnn"Second Sight's DVD also contains admirable extras - an excellent 50+ minute retrospective documentary by nDaniel Bird that tracks the film from concept to completion"n-David Flint, Strange Things Are Happening Less
