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- 105 Minutes
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Language English
- Subtitles English
- Country UK
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- Format: Widescreen
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- Directed by Roman Polanski
- Written by David Stone, Gerard Brach, Roman Polanski
- Starring Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Patrick Wymark, Yvonne Furneaux
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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. She is soon haunted by specters real and imagined, and her insanity grows to a violent, hysterical pitch. Thanks to its disturbing detail and Polanski's adeptness at turning claustrophobic space into an emotional minefield, REPULSION is a surreal, mind-bending odyssey into personal horror, and it remains one of cinema's most shocking psychological thrillers.
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Won: FIPRESCI Prize, Silver Berlin Bear, 1965 Berlin International Film Festival
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A wicked tale of madness and female paranoia.
-- Edward Guthmann, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE