The film has been released on DVD with subtitles and captions.Tour de force? Not quite.
A film like this rides on the quality of the acting, and the Brits – Northam and Ehle – invest their forbidden love with centuries of fine repressed English tradition." Rob Gonsalves said, "Possession is a dual-track exploration of romantic mores then and now. Jamie Russell of the BBC said, "Lacking the intelligence of an arthouse picture, or the classy sheen of a British production, "Possession" isn't possessed of anything other than over-wrought emotionalism and unintentional silliness."
LaBute's grafting of his own sensibility onto Roland creates a weird tonal clash." has here infused a British novelist's main characters with the same stutter-and-slang rhythms, male-bonding repartée and sarcastic volleys that define his own distinctly American work." He said, "In the end, Mr. ĭaniel Zalewski of The New York Times noted that director LaBute, "known for savagely blunt stage and screen dramas. Roger Ebert awarded the film three stars and a half out of four. The site's critics consensus reads: "It's perhaps a bit tame and uninspiring, considering its subject matter, but Possession manages enough romance and period intrigue to satisfy most fans of its source material." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 52 out of 100, based on 34 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 63%, with an average rating of 6.30/10, based on 156 reviews. Ralph Fiennes was approached for the role as Randolph Ash that eventually went to Jeremy Northam. in part, it was more comfortable for me to write Roland that way." Casting He denied that this was "shameless pandering to the audience. LaBute changed Roland's nationality from British to American, and made him more brash and active. And so in the film, Roland keeps making these wild, imaginative leaps about the poets' lives, and Maud's both charmed and appalled."
Just seeing those notes kind of gave me the keys to the kingdom. "What she basically said was, 'This is Roland on the page you must make him different in a film!' She got that Roland needed more drive. LaBute made drastic changes to the story, based partially on notes that original author Byatt had made on earlier drafts of the screenplay, as she recognized that Roland Michell had to "exist on screen" in a different way than he did in the book. Directors such as Sydney Pollack and Gillian Armstrong worked on the film and eventually gave up before LaBute became director. Three early drafts of the film's screenplay were written by American playwright David Henry Hwang in the 1990s, but the project languished in pre-production for years.
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