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Possession Movie Rating: 
Beautifully Acted | |
| Based on a novel by A. S. Byatt, Possession focuses on two different couples in two different centuries, whose relationships are remarkably similar, yet fixed by the cultural rules of their respective eras. Uptight American researcher Roland Mitchell (Aaron Eckhart) and icy English academic Maud Bailey (Gwyneth Paltrow) thaw out just enough to fall in love while investigating a previously unknown romantic correspondence between Victorian poets Randolph Henry Ash (Jeremy Northam) and Christabel LaMotte (Jennifer Ehle). | |
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Director Neil LaBute invests Possession with some of the same sexual
politics from his earlier film, In the Company of Men, but the tone this
time is less cynical and more overtly sentimental. Both a love story and a detective story, this beautifully acted, gorgeous film is all about passion for language, literature, and above all, romance. |
Jennifer Ehle and Jeremy Northam. Courtesy of Focus Films. |
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