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Analysis. The film is unusual for being a scary film that features a female killer. It explores the repulsion Carol feels about sexuality in general and her suitors' pursuit of her in particular.
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.
- Lee Pfeiffer
Jul 27, 2009 · In Hitchcock’s film, we see a double murder through the eyes of the victims—in Polanski’s, our viewpoint is the killer’s.”) But Repulsion, which has taken its place in the canon of official postwar film masterpieces, recalls more than just Hitchcock.
Thanks to its disturbing detail and Polanski’s adeptness at turning claustrophobic space into an emotional minefield, Repulsion is a surreal, mind-bending odyssey into personal horror, and it remains one of cinema’s most shocking psychological thrillers. Film Info. DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES.
- Carol
Jan 7, 1991 · Centered on a beautiful schizophrenic instead of a dapper alcoholic, with a backdrop of swinging London instead of wartime New York, it’s a horror movie, not a “problem” movie. But it has the same suspense hook as Wilder’s Oscar-winner: a sick but deceptively presentable person (Catherine Deneuve) is left alone in an apartment usually ...
Sep 13, 2021 · Repulsion, a film set in the mundane kitchen-sink realism of the British cinema of the 1960s, employs those very conceits effectively: in a narrative that functions in an entirely realistic, plausible, lower-middle-class world, several brief, intense, and surprising episodes surrealistically convey the increasingly fraught and ultimately frighte...
Mar 21, 2018 · As in The Tenant (1976), Repulsion‘s story focuses on a character who suffers from mental problems, enabling the film to create an extreme focus on the representation of confinement. The film’s form and its visual style try to impose this problematic on the story material, creating an inner exploration of the character and her questionable ...
