Still perhaps Polanski's most perfectly realised film, a stunning portrait of the disintegration, mental and emotional, of a shy young Belgian girl (Deneuve) living in London.
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02/09/06
Repulsion (1965)
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Reviews Counted:44
Fresh:44
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.8/10
Consensus: Roman Polanski's first English film follows a schizophrenic woman's descent into madness, and makes the audience feel as claustrophobic as the character.
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: REPULSION, starring the incomparable Catherine Deneuve, was director Roman Polanski's first movie filmed in English. It chronicles the descent into schizophrenia of a sexually confused, isolated... [More]
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, Yvonne Furneaux, Patrick Wymark
Director: Roman Polanski
Reviews for Repulsion
Top CriticRepulsion is perhaps Polanski's and Deneuve's finest hours.
01/01/00
If hell is in the details, Roman Polanski has captured it here in his disturbing portrait of falling into psychosis.
09/21/07
Top CriticAn intense psychological thriller from the master of the genre.
09/21/07
Top CriticThis is Roman Polanski's most microscopically focused tale of paranoia, and arguably his greatest achievement.
10/03/05
Polanski displayed a much more troubling kind of thinking, forever banishing the possibility of safety for his characters.
04/09/04
The ordeal we and Polanski craved for Deneuve turned out to be just a sport, and we were the ball -- just as we'd hoped.
04/11/06
... a masterfully conducted portrait in madness...
07/27/09
A film that seems as fresh as the day it was released.
01/01/00
Although it cannot quite live up to its reputation, Polanski's startling psychological horror film is a bona fide genre classic.
07/27/09
Polanski dares the viewer to plunge into that eye and through the psychic rabbit hole that is its owner's increasingly unhinged personality. [Blu-ray]
07/28/09
Prepare yourself to be demolished when you go to see it -- and go you must, because it's one of those films everybody will soon be buzzing about.
05/20/03
Top CriticA methodical but fairly repellent exercise in claustrophobic horror.
10/18/06
Roman Polanski made his international name with this genuinely frightening black-and-white nightmare.
04/09/07
Repulsion wastes no time before plunging its audience into the frighteningly disturbed mindset of its central character.
08/05/09
Its two-way prism of audio-visual embellishments intuits a woman's fractured psyche and catches super-cool flashes of the audience's perverse cine-desires.
04/14/06
Repulsion is a frightening, fiercely entertaining experience that holds up to time.
01/01/00
A contemporary audience might find the horror in Repulsion occurring too little, too late, but the fun of the movie is in the details, the careful etching of the mind of a woman cracking under the strain of her alienation.
01/01/00
a riveting horror thriller, one that cuts through the simple and comforting categories of good and evil
08/04/09
Haunting and ominous from first frame to last, Polanski's first English film is a masterpiece, a subtle horror tale about the descent into madness of an isolated, sexually repressed woman, stunningly played by Catherine Deneuve who was only 22 at the time
07/25/09
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