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Directed by:
Roman Polanski 
Written by:
Roman Polanski, Gerald Brach
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1965 |
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| Genre: |
HORROR
THRILLER
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| Origin: |
GB |
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| Colour: |
BW |
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| Length: |
104 |
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Young woman (Catherine Deneuve) goes dangerously mad in swinging London. |
Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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| One of the most frightening films ever made: Polanski takes us inside the mind of a paranoid murderess, and keeps us there. There’s little attempt to explain the reason for her mental state: she’s sexually repressed (supposedly the root of all evil in the 1960s), but it’s unclear whether that is a cause of her crack-up or merely a symptom. Deneuve’s chilling performance and Polanski’s expressionist camerawork combine to make a film that is ugly and sordid, but also a memorably disturbing portrait of emotional disintegration. | |
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, John Fraser 
