Repulsion (1965)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.9/10   

Director:

Roman Polanski

Escritores:

Roman Polanski (original screenplay) &
Gérard Brach (original screenplay) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

3 octubre 1965 (USA)

Género:

Suspenso | Horror | Drama

Frase comercial:

From the Award-Winning "Knife In the Water"

Plot:

Left alone when her sister goes on vacation, a sexually repressed young beauty goes insane with surreal fantasies of seduction and rape.

Plot Keywords:

Hallucination | Seduction | Rape | Purse | Sister Sister Relationship

Premios:

Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 2 wins & 1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

The best film I've seen in a long time

Reparto

Catherine Deneuve	...	Carole Ledoux
Ian Hendry	...	Michael
John Fraser	...	Colin
Yvonne Furneaux	...	Hélène Ledoux
Patrick Wymark	...	Landlord
Renee Houston	...	Miss Balch
Valerie Taylor	...	Madame Denise
James Villiers	...	John
Helen Fraser	...	Bridget
Hugh Futcher	...	Reggie
Monica Merlin	...	Mrs. Rendlesham
Imogen Graham	...	Manicurist
Mike Pratt	...	Workman

También conocida como:

Repulsión (Venezuela) [es]

Duración:

105 min

País:

UK

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Clasificación:

Singapore:PG | Finland:(Banned) (1965) (uncut) | Finland:K-16 (1993) (uncut) | Finland:K-18 (1965) (cut) | UK:15 (2004) | Hungary:16 | Iceland:16 | UK:15 (theatrical re-release) | South Korea:18 | Portugal:M/16 | Australia:M | Norway:16 (original rating) | Norway:18 (video rating) | Sweden:15 | UK:18 (video rating) (1984) | UK:X (original rating) | USA:Unrated

Locaciones de Filmación:

Earl's Court, London, England, UK

Compañía:

Compton Films

Trivialidades:

The scene where Catherine Deneuve stumbles across the bridge and down the street was filmed at Hammersmith Bridge, London.

Errores:

Continuidad: The position between shots of the telephone and the envelope when Carole picks up the rabbit and goes to answer the phone.

Citas:

Carole Ledoux: I must get this crack mended.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in The Commune (2009)

The best film I've seen in a long time

This film, the first Polanski made in English, works so well, and for so many different reasons, that I felt like I had to watch it again as soon as it ended.

From the first moments of the movie, Polanski sets up the key conflict, cutting between shots of Catherine Denuve's gorgeous face and of the things she is seeing, all of which are almost frighteningly ugly by comparison. After fifteen minutes of this, it becomes clear why Denuve's Carol is unable to cope with anything in the world around her, and why she is so dependent on her sister and her attractive female co-worker, who provide the film's only beauty other than Denuve. When her sister leaves her alone, her surroundings decay further into ugliness, sending her deeper into her madness. I loved the way that despite Carol's growing insanity, Polanski keeps going back to closeups of her face, which remains beautiful. So beautiful, in fact, that no one can seem to notice that she is clearly very deranged.

The only question the film left me with is this: How could Carol possibly survived for an entire lifetime up till the point where the film began?