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Repulsion is a 1965 British psychological horror thriller film directed by Roman Polanski, and starring Catherine Deneuve. [2] Based on a story written by Polanski and Gérard Brach, the plot follows Carol, a withdrawn, disturbed young woman who, when left alone in the apartment she shares with her sister, is subject to a number of nightmarish experiences.
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.
Repulsion. In Roman Polanski's first English-language film, beautiful young manicurist Carole (Catherine Deneuve) suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her ...
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Synopsis. Carol Ledoux, a beautiful, reserved Belgian woman, works in London as a manicurist and lives in an apartment with her sister Helen. Although she has an admiring boyfriend, Colin, Carol is repulsed by sexuality, and particularly by Michael, her sister's married lover. Carol is repelled by his razor and toothbrush in their bathroom and ...
A British Horror Film (2003), a documentary on the making of Repulsion, featuring interviews with Polanski, producer Gene Gutowski, and cinematographer Gil Taylor, among others. A 1964 television documentary filmed on the set of Repulsion, with rare footage of Polanski and Deneuve at work. Original theatrical trailers.
Repulsion (1965) -- (Movie Clip) Fire And Ice Wow factor not unexpected in the opening of a Roman Polanski film, credits over an unusually tight shot of his 21-year old star Catherine Deneuve, as manicurist Carol, Valerie Taylor as her boss "Madame Denise," from Repulsion, 1965. Film Details. Genre. Horror/Science-Fiction. Drama.
Jul 27, 2009 · Jul 27, 2009. W e enter Roman Polanski’s harrowing Repulsion as if in the middle of the story, but it’s actually the beginning of the end. Polanski unceremoniously drops us into a beauty salon where a pampered matron takes to task our heroine, a manicurist who bites her own nails, played by Catherine Deneuve, as insufficiently focused.
Oct 19, 2023 · Gilbert Taylor’s frightening framing of Carol’s descent into psychosis helps Repulsion instill a sense of unease and dread in the audience even as they find themselves rooting for the increasingly unhinged heroine, a sign of an excellent horror film if I’ve ever seen one.
Jan 7, 1991 · In 1965, Repulsion was greeted as a brilliant, grisly potboiler that gave the thirty-two-year-old Polish filmmaker Roman Polanski commercial entree to the West. Some viewed it as Polanski’s riposte to Hitchcock’s Psycho. Three decades later, it’s evident that Polanski was always drawn to existential horror, and that his lucid moviemaking owes as much to Hollywood’s master writer ...
