Repulsion (Criterion Collection)
The nightmare world of a virgin's dreams becomes the screen's shocking reality!
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 45 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 28, 2009
- Originally Released: 1965
- Label: Criterion
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Catherine Deneuve | |
Performer: | Ian Hendry, Yvonne Furneaux, Patrick Wymark, James Villiers, John Fraser, Renee Houston & Valerie Taylor | |
Directed by | Roman Polanski | |
Edited by | Alastair McIntyre | |
Written by | Roman Polanski | |
Composition by | Chico Hamilton | |
Art Direction by | Seamus Flannery | |
Produced by | Gene Gutowski | |
Director of Photography: | Gilbert Taylor |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
Deneuve, as the woman whose fear of sexual contact is at the base of her neurosis, has seldom been less like her icy self.
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London Evening Standard
Deneuve gives an astonishing, clinically accurate performance ...
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Observer (UK)
...Polanski ups the horror ante with stylish, Hitchcockian filmmaking that makes the most of shadow and nuance and is chock-full of symbolism and subtext...
Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 4/5 --
A film that expertly shows without ever telling, even while the symbolism is a mite heavy handed.
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Little White Lies
...An all-time chiller...
USA Today
At second glance, or as often as a moviegoer can bear to peek through his knotted fingers, it is a Gothic horror story, a classic chiller of the Psycho school and approximately twice as persuasive.
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TIME Magazine
Rating: 3/5 --
It's been an inspiration ever since for films about claustrophobic hysteria, but not necessarily in a good way ...
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
Product Description:
REPULSION, starring the incomparable Catherine Deneuve, was director Roman Polanski's first movie filmed in English. It chronicles the descent into schizophrenia of a sexually confused, isolated young woman named Carol who works at a beauty parlor and shares an apartment with her sister Helen (Yvonne Furneaux). One day Helen and her boyfriend, Michael (Ian Hendry), go off on vacation together and Carol is left alone in the empty apartment, where the only sounds are the constant ticking of a clock, faucets dripping, and the invasive ringing of a telephone. Extremely paranoid, Carol refuses to let anyone in and never leaves the building herself, in effect breaking off all contact with the outside world. In this claustrophobic environment, she begins to lose her grip on reality, suffering from hallucinations of being attacked by a phantom rapist and hands reaching out from the walls to grab her. Highly acclaimed and extremely gripping, Polanski's disturbing film can be seen as a prelude to his later work in the field of psychological horror: ROSEMARY'S BABY and, especially, THE TENANT.
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Roman Polanski followed up his international breakthrough Knife in the Water with this controversial, chilling tale of psychosis, starring Catherine Deneuve as Carole, a fragile, frigid young beauty cracking up over the course of a terrifying weekend. Left alone by her vacationing sister in their London flat, Carole is haunted by specters real and imagined, and her insanity grows to a violent pitch. Thanks to its unforgettable attention to disturbing detail and Polanski's unparalleled adeptness at turning claustrophobic space into an emotional minefield, Repulsion remains one of cinema's most shocking psychological thrillers.
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