An interview with Catherine Deneuve 23/12/1966 Catherine Deneuve - Roman Polanski 29/10/1964 Repulsion TRAILER. Roman Polanski's 'Repulsion' Roman Polanski's second feature, and his first after emigrating from communist Poland, "Repulsion" quivers with liberated energy and forces both cathartic and annihilating.
Detailing the abrupt mental deterioration of a nail-chomping beautician named Carole, played by Catherine Deneuve, the 1965 film, due out in a new DVD and Blu-ray edition from the Criterion Collection on Tuesday, is consistently engrossing, even though, or perhaps because, it is essentially one long Freudian gag. Making her own English-language debut, Deneuve is both Rosemary and the devil in one unblemished package. The ideal of feminine beauty, and treated accordingly by Polanski's libidinous camera, Deneuve's naif is alluring but untouchable, her outward prudishness masking a pervasive psychic rot. Polanski places the audience inside his heroine's diseased mind.
Once Deneuve's sister decamps for an amorous vacation with her married lover, the movie abandons all sense of the outside world. Calendar@latimes.com. Eye of the Storm. We enter Roman Polanski’s harrowing Repulsion as if in the middle of the story, but it’s actually the beginning of the end.
Polanski unceremoniously drops us into a beauty salon where a pampered matron takes to task our heroine, a manicurist who bites her own nails, played by Catherine Deneuve, as insufficiently focused. “Have you fallen asleep?” Chides the cosseted client. Giving us no insight into her daydream, Polanski establishes our relationship with this impenetrable girl, whom we will barely get to know even though she’ll be the film’s main focus. Already the opening title sequence has concluded with a close-up of one of Deneuve’s eyes—with the words “Directed by Roman Polanski” ominously slicing straight across like a razor—yet, as we learn, our proximity to her hardly brings a greater understanding of who she is, or why she’ll do the terrible things she ultimately does.
Repulsion was Polanski’s second feature, after his Oscar-nominated Knife in the Water (1962). Le ciné de neil. Fiche technique Film britannique Genre : paranoïa claustrophobe Durée : 1h45 Scénario : Roman Polanski et Gérard Brach Musique : Chico Hamilton Directeur de la photographie : Gilbert Taylor Avec Catherine Deneuve (Carole Ledoux), Ian Hendry (Michael), Yvonne Furneaux (Hélène Ledoux), John Fraser (Colin), Patrick Wymark (Landlord)… Synopsis : Une jeune femme dont la vie amoureuse est perturbée sombre dans la schizophrénie meurtrière.
Mon avis : Le mal venait de l’intérieur Remarqué par son premier long-métrage Un couteau dans l’eau, nommé aux oscars, Roman Polanski débarque au milieu des années 60 en Angleterre en plein Swinging London. Le jeune homme qui grandit dans le bloc communiste découvre alors le vent de liberté qui souffle sur l’occident. Il rencontre la jeune Catherine Deneuve, à cette époque compagne de David Bailey, le photographe des Rolling Stones entre autres. La mise en place de l’intrigue durant toute la première partie du film est d’une lenteur qui a de quoi déconcerter. Répulsion (film) Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Répulsion (Repulsion) est un film britannique réalisé par Roman Polański et sorti en 1965. Ours d'argent à Berlin en 1965 Cinéma britannique (en) Monthly Film Bulletin, n° 378(en) Sight and Sound, été 1965 (article p. 105 + notule p. 156)(fr) Les Cahiers du cinéma, n° 168 (juillet 1965) ; n° 175 (février 1966) ; n° 176 (mars 1966)(fr) Dominique Avron, Roman Polanski, Rivages, 1987, 194 p.
(fr) Roman Polanski, Roman par Polanski, Robert-Laffont, 1984, 498 p.