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- Polanski links horror to his heroine’s increasing loneliness in order to create a subjective framework which might give a shape to a fear seen and heard, not from an external cause but from an internal one. Consequently, confinement begets insanity and is associated with obsession, a dual relation both to the image and being.
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The story for Repulsion was conceived by Roman Polanski and Gérard Brach, who wrote an outline of the script in Paris. [16] Polanski, who had recently relocated from his native Poland to the United Kingdom, decided to set the film in London. [ 16 ]
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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 (Yvonne Furneaux) in London. When Helen and her married lover leave on holiday, she is left alone in the apartment, whereupon her mental condition deteriorates. Her attraction and repulsion toward sex and men drive her to madness and murder.
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•Studio: Compton Films
•Director: Roman Polanski
•Producer: Gene Gutowski
•Writers: Roman Polanski and Gérard Brach
•Music: Chico Hamilton
•Running time: 104 minutes
•Catherine Deneuve (Carole)
•Ian Hendry (Michael)
•John Fraser (Colin)
•Yvonne Furneaux (Helen)
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Sep 10, 2024 · In 2024, Polish-born filmmaking legend Roman Polanski is still primarily known as a rapist who has been dodging authorities since the notorious, horrific sexual assault case at Jack Nicholson’s Hollywood mansion in 1975.
Sep 11, 2023 · Repulsion demonstrates the sensitive perceptions of a troubled woman, as we witness the events unfolding according to her perspective. The film begins and ends with a close-up of her eye—ending with that childhood photograph where she appears distant and off to the side.
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.
Jul 27, 2009 · In Repulsion, as throughout his career, Polanski preys on the viewer’s acceptance of “face value,” only to cannily undermine it, with his characters treading into hostile territory they, and we, haven’t seen coming. All we see is what Carol appears to be, and progressively we see what she sees.
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.
