Repulsion

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    Repulsion
    1965

    Synopsis

    Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian holiday with her married boyfriend, Carole withdraws into her apartment. She begins to experience frightful hallucinations, her fear gradually mutating into madness.

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    Cast

    • Catherine DeneuveCarole Ledoux
    • Ian HendryMichael
    • John FraserColin
    • Yvonne FurneauxHélène Ledoux
    • Patrick Wymarkle propriétaire
    • Renée HoustonMme Balch
    • Valerie TaylorMme Denise
    • James VilliersJohn
    • Helen FraserBrigitte
    • Monica MerlinMme Rendesham

    Recommandations

    • 100

      Austin Chronicle

      Repulsion's depiction of a young woman's dissolution into madness is one of the most harrowing mental descents ever depicted onscreen. (Reviewed 11/24/97)
    • 100

      San Francisco Chronicle

      The cruelty of his methods aside -- and Polanski wasn't the first director to terrorize an actor for the sake of a performance -- Repulsion is a frightening, fiercely entertaining experience that holds up to time. (Review of May 1998 revival)
    • 100

      TV Guide Magazine

      Repulsion has often been compared to "Psycho," but Polanski's film, rather than presenting a portrait of a psychotic killer from outside, pulls the audience into the crazed individual's mind. (Review of Original Release)
    • 100

      Variety

      Repulsion is a classy, truly horrific psychological drama in which Polish director Roman Polanski draws out a remarkable performance from young French thesp, Catherine Deneuve. (Review of Original Release)
    • 100

      The New York Times

      An absolute knockout of a movie in the psychological horror line has been accomplished by Roman Polanski in his first English-language film. (Review of Original Release)
    • 100

      Empire

      If hell is in the details, Roman Polanski has captured it here in his disturbing portrait of falling into psychosis.
    • 80

      Chicago Reader

      Roman Polanski's first film in English (1965, 105 min.) is still his scariest and most disturbing--not only for its evocations of sexual panic, but also because his masterful employment of sound puts the audience's imagination to work in numerous ways...As narrative this works only part of the time, and as case study it may occasionally seem too pat, but as subjective nightmare it's a stunning piece of filmmaking.
    • 70

      Village Voice

      The movie's shake-and-bake mix of "reality" and crumbling subjectivity is too deliberate to be about character--it is, rather, a game of movieness, a masquerade of Grand Guignol–as-psyche, virtually a parody of the surrealist's notion of consciousness bagged and tagged on celluloid.

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