Word: gorgeousity
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Considering that most of the movie takes place in a stygian cave, The Keep looks gorgeous. Slow motion and pixilation enhance the spooky mood; a telephoto lens turns the castle into a pointillist magic mountain. It is cinematic balm when a fantasy movie pays informed tribute to the decorative arts. It is also, most likely, box-office poison...
Hattie is tall, thin, gorgeous, Waspy, a Bloomingdale's commercial for poise. Her boyfriend is a married marketing exec who calls her "Beauty"; her mother is a trail-blazing career woman (Jo Henderson) who thinks Jean Harris got a bum rap. Janie is an underemployed writer, short, sad-eyed and Jewish, with an attitude problem ("Know what I resent? Just about everything!") and a rather complacent identity crisis ("I very badly want to be someone else without going to the trouble of changing myself). Her boyfriend Marty (Chip Zien) is a kidney specialist who looks like a Muppet rabbi...
Panoramic views of the Russian landscape and gorgeous country estates stun our eyes with crystalline grandeur. The sections of the movie set in a luxurious health spa where bureaucrats take siestas resemble the decadence of Roman orgies. Gorky Park delves into all levels of Russian society, revealing their hidden characters as Renko uncovers latent horrors...
...himself have said it better in his speculations about the imaginary cave where prisoners see life as a series of shadows flickering on the walls? Wasn't that what Shakespeare meant when he had Prospero conclude his pageant by declaring that "the cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples" would all dissolve, for "we are such stuff as dreams are made on"? Trompe l'oeil (trickery of the eye) is the artistic term for it, and Italy is full of palaces with flat ceilings painted to look vaulted and plaster made to resemble marble...
...horrendously truncated U.S. version (some 40 min. have been cut), Possession is a more engaging movie than it has any right to be. Zulawski's images are attractively dour: gray and brown, with the only assertive color an occasional shock of blood red. Adjani is a sullen ravisher, gorgeous and half bonkers. Like the movie itself, Adjani has the power of her pretentiousness...