Cul-de-Sac (Criterion Collection)
Sometimes there’s nothing left to do but laugh!
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 52 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 16, 2011
- Originally Released: 1966
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Donald Pleasence, Françoise Dorléac, Lionel Stander & Jack MacGowran | |
Performer: | Jacqueline Bisset | |
Directed by | Roman Polanski | |
Screenplay by | Gérard Brach & Roman Polanski |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 9/10 --
Polanski tributes the [gangster-invasion film] by adding his own conceit: when there's no community worth salvaging, a threat will leave all involved floating, sans shoreline.
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Film International
If the subject matter is bleak and bitterly serious, the tone throughout is darkly comic, while the precise imagery effortlessly conveys the tension, the claustrophobia, and the madness of the situation.
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Time Out
One of the best and purest of all his works.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 2.5/5 --
After two clean hits -- Knife in the Water and Repulsion -- Roman Polanski is entitled to one wild swing.
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New York Times
Rating: 3/4 --
This much sounds like a standard horror-film outline, especially since Stander looks amazingly like Frankenstein. But Polanski ignores the horror to concentrate instead on macabre humor.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 2.5/4 --
pure Polanski through and through, made with no restraints and little outside influence, but it stumbles on its own absurdist tendencies, demonstrating how sometimes too much is too much
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Q Network Film Desk
... as assured and as perfectly crafted as anything in Polanski's career, a miniature where every facet offers multiple reflections.
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Product Description:
A somewhat surreal black comedy directed and coscripted by Roman Polanski, CUL-DE-SAC is the tale of a mismatched married couple, George and Teresa (Donald Pleasence and Françoise Dorléac), living in an isolated 11th-century castle near the ocean whose home is invaded by two gangsters on the run after an unsuccessful heist. Lionel Stander plays Dicky, a thug who attempts to save the life of his mortally wounded partner (Jack MacGowran) by enlisting the help of George and Teresa, then holds them captive in their own home as the group awaits the arrival of the mysterious Mr. Kattlebach, the gangsters' boss whom Dicky has contacted prior to cutting the phone line. The nubile young Teresa proves more resourceful than her ever-cringing husband as they try to come up with a plan for eluding their boorish captor; further complications arise, however, after an unexpected visit from an old school chum of George's, who arrives with an entourage of annoying family and friends. In spite of tensions that, as Polanski later reported, existed between him and his often less than cooperative stars, all three principals give fine performances, most notably Pleasence as the cuckolded, humiliated, and (as Dicky at one point proclaims) hopelessly "square" British WWII veteran George.
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- Sales Rank: 55,019
- UPC: 715515084215
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