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Repulsion is a 1965 British psychological horror thriller film directed by Roman Polanski, and starring Catherine Deneuve.
Repulsion: Directed by Roman Polanski. With Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Yvonne Furneaux. A sex-repulsed woman who disapproves of her sister's boyfriend sinks into depression and has horrific visions of rape and violence.
In Roman Polanski's first English-language film, beautiful young manicurist Carole (Catherine Deneuve) suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men).
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Repulsion. Roman Polanski followed up his international breakthrough Knife in the Water with this controversial, chilling tale of psychosis. Catherine Deneuve is Carol, a fragile, frigid young beauty cracking up in her London flat when left alone by her vacationing sister.
Repulsion, British psychological thriller film, released in 1965, directed by Roman Polanski and noted for the stellar lead performance of Catherine Deneuve. Carol Ledoux (played by Deneuve) is a beautiful but fragile and mentally disturbed young woman from Belgium who lives with her sister Helen.
Repulsion centers on the mental breakdown of a beautiful but disturbed Belgian woman newly arrived in London. Unlike the other psycho thrillers that explain insanity through Freudian back-stories, Roman Polanski and Gérard Brach's script looks at madness from the madwoman's own subjective viewpoint.
Co-writer/director Roman Polanski's disturbing, tense, frightening horror-psychological thriller was about the mental deterioration into schizophrenia of...
