Directed by Roman Polanski. She quickly descends into madness, which ultimately also affects those that are trying to get in touch with her. 11 of 14 people found this review helpful. We know days have passed because a skinned rabbit left on a plate in the kitchen becomes ranker and the potatoes on the sink grow extravagantly more grotesque. In London, Belgian immigrant Carol Ledoux shares an apartment with her older sister Helen, and works as a manicurist at a beauty salon. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? My biggest complaint in my review of that film was that it had an interesting concept, but it didn't seem to have anything else. (Writing in 1965, Kenneth Tynan would go so far as to claim that “Repulsion is Psycho turned inside out. Today’s guest post comes from Kate Hagen. Whenever a character takes the ringing phone off the hook, the bell sound is cut off abruptly as opposed to having it resonate. She imagines a rapist coming through the door and sees arms reaching out of the walls to ravish her. . Ipsita Barik — Rosemary’s BabyIpsita Barik — Bonnie and ClydeMike Dobbins — The Sound of MusicBrandnewusedcar — Butch Cassidy and the Sundance KidMarkham Cook — Jules et JimSteve Cook — The Blue MaxJasperLamarCrab — 2001: A Space OdysseyN D — Lonely are the BraveDrew Dorenfest — Easy RiderRick Dyke — Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the BombRick Dyke — Fail SafeFelicity Flesher — The Music ManPaulG — Lawrence of ArabiaD.L. Averse to embracing psychiatric dictates to explain human behavior, Polanski is more an observer than an analyst, and his face slap to the claims of the therapeutic could not be more blunt. A Belgian girl, Carol, works as a manicurist at a London beauty salon. There, she is almost hypnotized by her solitude, which leads to her mental state deteriorating as those obsessions come to the fore. Michael takes Helen abroad for a holiday. While having lunch, a good looking young man, Colin, spots her and makes a date for another evening. The black and white cinematography by Gilbert Taylor (A Hard Day’s Night, Dr. Strangelove, Frenzy, Star Wars) focuses on shades of mundane grey early on, then develops into murky blacks as Carol’s mental state declines. “They’re all the same, just like children. (Polanski’s own Rosemary’s Baby and The Tenant [1976] would soon follow Repulsion’s lead, both of which confirm what Walter Benjamin [no better judge] called “the horror of apartments.”). Was this review helpful to you? I think you must be in love or something. A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government. Still, even as part of Carol’s imagination, the rapes in Repulsion are much more horrifying in their plausibility. Movie Title: Repulsion.   |  "Repulsion" is a great example of how to make a truly scary movie: The trick is not to fill the screen with monsters or indestructible serial killers, it is to portray fear in a way that will be familiar to the audience. Thanks, Kate! A sex-repulsed woman who disapproves of her sister's boyfriend sinks into depression and has horrific visions of rape and violence. Giving us no insight into her daydream, Polanski establishes our relationship with this impenetrable girl, whom we will barely get to know even though she’ll be the film’s main focus. While Helen and Michael leave on a vacation to Pisa, Italy, Carol chooses largely to lock herself in the apartment, ditching work. Carol’s wardrobe — whites, yellows, beige — obviously mirrors the safety and security she finds in purity, as do the nearby nuns she can’t stop spying on and their white frocks. The experience with Roman was very important to me.”, It’s perhaps Deneuve’s presence, as a glacial blonde in distress, that has kept critics noting the film’s Hitchcockian qualities ever since its release, not to mention its Psycho-like central poetic effect of the camera closing in on a woman’s eye. Already the opening title sequence has concluded with a close-up of one of Deneuve’s eyes—with the words “Directed by Roman Polanski” ominously slicing straight across like a razor—yet, as we learn, our proximity to her hardly brings a greater understanding of who she is, or why she’ll do the terrible things she ultimately does. Huggo. A sex-repulsed woman who disapproves of her sister's boyfriend sinks into depression and has horrific visions of rape and violence. At first, Carol, a francophone Belgian living in London with her older sister, Helen (Yvonne Furneaux), seems a mere blank slate. For me, it's in the screenplay itself. A Belgian girl, Carol, works as a manicurist at a London beauty salon. . Parents Guide. No themes, ideas, or things of that nature. We have 32 volunteers.

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