Repulsion

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Isaiah Y Catherine Deneuve’s greatest performance comes in this Roman Polanski classic Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 06/23/24 Full Review Alejandro E Roman Polanski's first film in English was an effort to play Alfred Hitchcock; without emulating it, of course. The atmosphere and the background score perfectly synthesize a plummet into madness. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 04/21/24 Full Review nick s A slow movie with a simple premise. Though it was fascinating to watch. The director took his time with every shot, creating a much more voyeuristic feel than a typical movie. The long, gently moving takes were particularly engaging. You do need to put up with a meandering first stanza, but the movie does pack a lot more punch near the end. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 11/10/23 Full Review Alec C Brings you a churning feeling in your stomach every time you watch the woman lose her sanity. Intense cinematography and disturbing imagery gives us an other-wordly feeling of fear. By the end, we too are repulsed and shocked at what we just witnessed. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/07/23 Full Review Ekaterina P Polanski. Immediate, awful taste in my mouth. Reminds me of everything bad and awful. Charles Manson. Rape. Paedophilia. And yes, he is a paedophile. This is undeniable. Watching a work of art created by a criminal of a moral ranging from low to entirely unacceptable is always difficult and has to be done with a lot of caution, where it aligns with your morals and ethics. But on the other hand, so many artists of every kind have been outed having done reprehensible things, it becomes almost impossible to enjoy any creation if you do not wear the glasses of future past. We are trapped in the world of immorality, "wearing rose coloured glasses so that all the red flags look like flags." Cancel culture does not exist, and there isn't a single person in the world who doesn't get new chances. Polanski, just like many other paedophile rapists, continues to receive honors and job offers from above, despite the very many vocal protests from the public. The incredible irony is that the film "Repulsion" is about a woman terrorized by men, some of whom have her in some sort of power (like the landlord.) And perhaps even more ironic are the reviews written by men, speaking of the "decent admirer whose honest love might be exactly what she needs." It brings into the question whether everything we are seeing are her hallucinations, but being a woman myself, I really cannot help but experience everything in this movie as reality in some way or another, including the doubt that it brings into whether or not this is real - as this is something that us women are awfully familiar with on a mass scale. Scrubbing all of that off of our brains, there is no denying that this film is highly influential. So many modern horror classics like "It Follows", "The Babadook" and "Hereditary" cite as having this film being one of the influences, where some influences are a lot more on the nose than others (rabbits and pigeons and wall hands, oh my.) Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 10/04/23 Full Review Petros T What "Repulsion" really succeeds in is the depiction of the protagonist's mental unraveling; Catherine Deneuve is very convincing as the listless Carol, the explicit and insinuated themes are hefty, and the photography and production design are suitably nightmarish. However, the narrative is pretty limited and even repetitive, the character insight is scarce, sometimes hallucinatory moments disrupt otherwise perfectly realistic scenes, and all in all the film never manages to truly captivate. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 09/05/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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