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Synopsis: During a secretive business trip away, Mark learns that his wife Anna is growing restless in what he believed was their happy marriage. Upon his return home, he learns from her that she wants a divorce. They both go through a series of different emotions related to their situation, Mark's which is generally obsessive about learning why Anna, who he still loves, wants the divorce, and Anna's which is generally increasingly histrionic in getting away from Mark. Caught in the middle is their infant son Bob, who Mark uses as a gage to Anna's mental state. Anna states that her want for the divorce is not because of another man, but Mark finds out that Anna has a lover named Heinrich. In the meantime, Mark also meets Bob's teacher Helen, who looks exactly like Anna, but is her polar opposite in temperament. Starting a relationship with Helen lessens his obsession with Anna. But as Mark and Anna's encounters together reach more emotional and violent levels, Mark, with help of a private invest
Genre: Drama, Horror
Director(s): Andrzej Zulawski
Production: Anchor Bay Entertainment
  5 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Rotten Tomatoes:
83%
R
Year:
1981
124 min
8,295 Views


to impose his will on anyone.

So that's how you've changed her so much.

Possibly, but is it changing her,

or making her open to herself?

So open that she's inarticulate at

night and you have to speak for her?

What are you talking about?

We spoke on the phone last

night, you and I, didn't we?

Stop it, I just arrived from Hamburg!

You weren't listening to me.

I was just trying to make her

comprehend that I love her!

I left the day you arrived, to give

her a chance to decide for herself.

I allowed you your chance.

-Bullshit!

I'm not obliged to listen to you

speak to me in that way, it's--

How long have you been

f***ing me over? -A year.

With my visits home, all that time.

-Yes.

And this is what you mean

by accepting Anna's ways?

Precisely.

The key being the infinitive. To accept.

I've been honest with you. Would you

permit me to inquire on a specific point?

On your last visit home,

were you content with your

wife? I mean, sexually.

Why?

Because in that period we reached

a state of perfect harmony.

My mother.

Is she here all the time?

-Yes.

Even when you're f***ing Anna?

-Of course.

Yes! Yes!

Baa Baa black sheep, have you any wool?

Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full.

One for... the master, one for the dame,

and one for the little boy

that... lives down the lane.

Can I go out into the back yard?

Yes you may, but you take

your sandwich with you.

Where were you?

-I wrote you, I was at Margit's.

That's not true, I spoke to her.

I was with him.

That's not true either.

I saw him, I may...

stink from him, but he's not lying.

I was with friends!

-Who?

New friends!

-I'll check!

Yes, check, check, check!

Why did you leave last night?

To be alone!

-But you said you went to friends!

Why are you nagging me?

Can't you just leave me in peace?

I could have perfect peace

if you never came back!

It's... Bob, I have Bob!

He is my son too!

Don't try to tell me that you

care about him all that much,

He didn't stop you from breaking us up.

If you really thought about him, you'd

give a thought to us, for Christ's sake!

I do, I do!

No you don't, you think about

buying him a pair of shoes,

about, about making him a snack,

about telling him a bedtime story,

but if you really thought about

him, you'd think about us!

Right! Right, right,

you're always right!

But it's difficult, don't you

understand? It is difficult!

I didn't want it to happen,

but it happened, and now...

Don't you come any closer!

-Anna, it's me!

Don't you understand you disgust me?

I can't stand you touching me...

You know, love isn't something you can

just... switch from channel to channel.

I have your letters! "My love,

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