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Possession
- Director: Neil LaBute
- Writer: A.S. Byatt; David Henry Hwang
- Producer: Len Amato; David Barron
CGiii Comment
Beautifully realised and played...up until the last 15 minutes when the story lurches from the sublime to the ridiculous.
A shame - classic case of a director losing control.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Roland Michell is an American scholar trying to make it in the difficult world of British Academia. He has yet to break out from under his mentor's shadow until he finds a pair of love letters that once belonged to one of his idols, a famous Victorian poet. Michell, after some sleuthing, narrows down the suspects to a woman not his wife, another well known Victorian poet. Roland enlists the aid of a Dr. Maud Bailey, an expert on the life of the woman in question. Together they piece together the story of a forbidden love affair, and discover one of their own. They also find themselves in a battle to hold on to their discovery before it falls into the hands of their rival, Fergus Wolfe.
Cast & Characters
Gwyneth Paltrow as Maud Bailey;
Aaron Eckhart as Roland Michell;
Jeremy Northam as Randolph Henry Ash;
Jennifer Ehle as Christabel LaMotte;
Lena Headey as Blanche Glover;
Holly Aird as Ellen Ash;
Toby Stephens as Fergus Wolfe;
Trevor Eve as Cropper;
Tom Hickey as Blackadder;
Georgia Mackenzie as Paola