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| Repulsion |
Roman Polanski achieves the disquieting effect of distorting Catherine Deneuve's startling beauty in his (and Deneuve's) English language debut.
Repulsion is a paranoid horror set in '60s London that couldn't be less concerned with the free-wheeling zeitgeist of the times.
Polanski instead focuses on an increasingly claustrophobic and unstable filmic space as Carol (Deneuve) retreats further into disassociation and psychosis.
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Repulsion is central to that vital, pop modernist moment in world cinema that has left a lasting legacy in experimental and horror-thriller sectors alike" Adrian Martin,
BIFF 2001
