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Plot: A young manicurist, with very pent up anxieties about sex, begins a descent into a kind of hallucinatory madness that drives her to commit murder.
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MCT:October 7, 2008When her sister/caretaker takes a well deserved vacation, mentally fragile Carole (Catherine Deneuve) holes up inside her lonely apartment and retreats into her head, which is haunted by irrational fears about men. Deneuve's portrait of a terrified and tormented mind barricading itself away from the world is simply magnificent, one of the most realistic and frightening portrayals of mental illness ever captured on film.
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MCT:October 1, 2008Per il contesto scenografico e le paure rappresentate nel film, "Repulsion" può essere inquadrato come primo episodio di una trilogia non dichiarata comprendente "Rosemary's Baby" e "Le Locataire". Nonostante le buone premesse il film non mi ha fatto impazzire. Nemmeno gli incubi sessuomani insieme a quelle metofariche crepe sui muri frutto della mente di Carol sono riusciti a conquistarmi.
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MCT:September 18, 2008
The most unnerving film I've seen. The more closely I watch it, the more signs of the girl's increasing insanity I pick up on. The most disturbing thing of all is that anyone in passing may be about to snap. Anyone. If seen in a theater you may want to lock your car door for the drive home.
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MCT:September 16, 2008
Eeks - some strange stuff here from 1965/Roman Polanski - moves along slowly as we watch this young woman supposedly repressing any sexual feelings that manifest into psycho type paranoia that leads to hallucinations & murder and mayhem...artsy gore. Stars a young Catherine Deneuve.
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MCT:September 5, 2008Roman Polanski?s first English language film, one that?s become very influential. In the film we essentially watch a woman descend into madness in her apartment while her sister is vacationing in Italy. The root idea behind the film is very good, it?s almost a little bit like a low budget version of The Shining. I was also reminded a bit of the recent William Friedkin movie Bug. Polanski?s ability to raise the tension without much thrilling stuff actually happening is amazing, but this isn?t a particularly fun movie to watch, there?s not really much of a plot to follow. Also the film?s low budget is its best friend and worst enemy; it has a certain raw energy but the poor lighting gets annoying fast. Also the actors here are pretty bad, at least when it comes to doing dialog scenes.
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MCT:August 18, 2008though there is no 'ghost' depicted in this film, i can feel the awful feeling in my gut as i was watching this movie... a very classic horror, i loved the play on shadows of nothingness and just letting absolute paranoia play in your mind.
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MCT:July 5, 2008
A chick with serious man issues slowly goes crazy in her apartment while her sister and brother-in-law are off on vacation. Very creepy scenes of hallucinations and murder. The ending will get under your skin.
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MCT:June 23, 2008
a work of pure art
though it is dark, it conveys so much about the stream between normal consciousness and psychosis -
MCT:June 22, 2008
Polanski is the master of making the viewer psychologically unnerved to the point where you feel as crazy as his characters. This movie is no exception.
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MCT:June 16, 2008
Repulsion is a 1965 film directed by Roman Polanski on a scenario by Gerard Brach and Roman Polanski. It was Polanski's first English language film, and was filmed in Britain. The cast includes Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Yvonne Furneaux, with a cameo appearance by Roman Polanski himself. It is widely considered a masterpiece of the psychological thriller.
Carol (played by a 20-year-old Deneuve) is a young Belgian virgin, who is both repelled and attracted by the idea of sex due to repressed feelings. Timid and fragile, she lives in London with her sister Helen. When Helen leaves on a holiday to Italy with her married boyfriend, Carol is left alone. Isolated at work too, she shuts herself up in their apartment, and becomes a slave of her own paranoid fears, unable to tell fantasy from reality, and begins to hallucinate. She violently kills a would-be suitor, Colin, using a candlestick, and later the landlord who attempts to rape her. When her sister returns home, she finds Carol under her bed, catatonic, and only a shell of her former self.
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MCT:May 14, 2008
I really wanted to love this film, but it was hard for me due the utter annoyance of the main character the entire first half.
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MCT:May 14, 2008
bom suspense, bastante tenso e enigmático, deixa ainda dúvidas depois que acaba o que o torna ainda mais interessante e menos óbvio. gosto do modo como o Polanski usa a montagem de som nas cenas de mais ação, quebrando continuidades e criando uma atmosfera mais envolvente e surreal.
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MCT:April 12, 2008
There is not much left to say about Polanski's genius. Namely about his early one.
Let's try, nevertheless.
Repulsion is the first of the so called "Apartment Triology". Before Rosemary's Baby. Before Le Locataire. Before color appeared in his movies. Before most of people even thought about dwelling in a similar subject and turn it into a movie.
But that's one of the things that describes Polanski best.
Vision.
I've been meaning to see this movie for a long time. Never got into the right mood for it (because you really need to be facing the right direction for this kind of movie, and I was already expecting it).
Until now.
I can't say I liked it better than any of my two Polani's favorites, already mentioned.
But I can say I'm far from disappointed.
In Repulsion - the title is as brilliant as it is fittable -, you slowly witness a downward spiral of claustrophobia, schizophrenia, mental twistedness and self-destructive paranoia. And although it eventually comes to a point where it starts to become physically disturbing, you end up "enjoying" it at several levels.
At least I did.
A warning regarding the pace, though.
If you're familiar with Polanski's early work, then you know what to expect. It is not a fast paced movie. Nor was it supposed to be. In fact, if one does not allow himself to indulge in the pleasures of such a mind breaking movie, one might even find it boring, every now and then.
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MCT:April 8, 2008
This movie was too slow for my liking, and too long. The main character's descent into madness was really weird, I thought it was the best part of the movie, it was really surreal.
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MCT:April 8, 2008
fantastic soundtrack, great actress, breath-taking screenplay... this movie is the incarnation of misanthropy.
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MCT:April 6, 2008
The best scenes in the film are the ones without dialogue -- when the physical walls start to crumble along with the metaphorical structure keeping up Deneuve's sanity. Very interesting to look at, but sort of overhyped to me.
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MCT:March 17, 2008
Polanski's disturbing psychological horror film about repressed sexuality. Deneuve gives us one of her most unnerving performances and for the time, the subject matter was daring and controversial. It paved the way for many more sexually psychotic films to come. It's also a great example of low-budget, independent and genre-based filmmaking.
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MCT:March 12, 2008
Slow moving character piece about a young woman's increased paranoia caused by her sexual repression/repulsion.
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MCT:March 7, 2008
I'll probably need to rewatch this movie sometime soon. Mostly because I thought the end got boring. But I absolutely loved the opening 30 minutes with the character development.
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MCT:March 5, 2008
I don't really know how to review this - Polanski is incredible...but this movie is just too dated to be effective. Maybe I'm just biased
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MCT:February 25, 2008
A twisted look at a beautiful young girls decent into madness, caused by sexual repression. Staring la belle Deneuve.
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MCT:February 8, 2008
I kind of consider this to be a female version of "Eraserhead', because it features a socially and sexually confused misfit, who spirals into a descension of madness. Unfortunately, I can't say I enjoy it as much because it is less fascinating and more boring, primarily because I can't intimately relate to the main character. The plot, as little as there is, shows us the depressing world of a young woman, whose anxieties escalate when she's left with only her thoughts and fears while isolated in her sister's apartment. A droning claustraphobia pervades over her as her "repulsion" towards men drives her to the point of murder. There is little dialogue here, and it relies on a mundane atmosphere, and to me, the movie just becomes quite redundant in it's paranoia. Untraditional and pretty interesting, but a bit of a let-down in my opinion.
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MCT:February 3, 2008
I got through about half an hour of this before the boredom absolutely overwhelmed me and I shut it off. I guess I'll give it another try later, because I like the premise, but way to make a dull first act, Polanski.
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