The death of Polish-born film director Andrzej Zulawski was announced today, he had been suffering from cancer. He was the creator of a remarkable body of work that was not always easy to get along with, but represented some of the most individual works in European cinema. Starting in television, he set off into films in the early 1970s with works like The Third Part of the Night and The Devil, but found the Communist authorities deeply suspicious of him and he was restricted. He escaped to France where he made The Important Thing is to Love, but a return to Poland saw his On the Silver Globe thwarted and unfinished till the 1980s. His most famous effort was the video nasty Possession, showcasing as many did his love of striking performances by actresses (in that case Isabelle Adjani), and he went on to create My Nights are More Beautiful Than Your Days and Fidelity for wife Sophie Marceau. His final film, Cosmos, is beginning to receive a wider release.
