movies 100 theaters

  • Subscribe to our RSS feed.
  • Twitter
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • Facebook
  • Digg

sábado, 18 de septiembre de 2010

441. Repulsion (1965)

Posted on 2:43 by Unknown



Running Time: 104 minutes
Directed By: Roman Polanski
Written By: Gerard Brach, Roman Polanski, David Stone
Main Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Yvonne Furneaux

Note: I'm going to try to tinker with the format of my reviews a little bit and make it a little bit easier on myself to bang them out. Instead of writing a plot synopsis, I'm going to attach a trailer for the film (when I can find one) and focus more on my actual opinion of the movie. I hope you like the new format and for all you reading this, please give me a little feedback, because I can always switch back to the old way of doing things.

REPULSION - APTLY NAMED




I'll start out by saying that I didn't care too much for "Repulsion" at all. Now before you go attacking me for being too close minded to find something a little different from the norm' a good thing, I'll say that I, in most cases, enjoy it when a filmmaker tries for something a little different and thinks outside the box. There was certainly an idea festering in there somewhere, beneath the mostly boring, monotonous plot. I like the idea of having a person who isn't all together there, being locked in an apartment, by herself for a few days and seeing what plays out. However, this film didn't intrigue me that much, and when you're going to think outside the box and do something a little off the wall, then certainly the first element you need is intrigue. I'm not sure if the Polanski fan in me was just expecting something more, as I have never seen this film, prior to tonight. I can't decide whether Deneuve was brilliant as the obviously mental ill loner or if her character was just really annoying and I'm leaning more toward the latter, as that was yet another element that I think was missing here, is that I didn't really care for these characters (or character, as this is pretty much a one woman show) and thus didn't care what happened to them/her.

I really have a love/hate relationship with Polanski's work, as I either seem to love the film or really despise it. On one hand you have the man who made classics like: Rosemary's Baby, The Pianist and Knife in the Water and on the other hand that same man directed The Tenant and now, Repulsion. And speaking of "Knife in the Water", I've always scratched my head and wondered why that beautiful film wasn't included in the "1001" book, and now I scratch even harder, as "Repulsion" could've easily been omitted for a better, more subtle, classic like "Knife in the Water".

With all that being said, I have this sneaking suspicion that someday, a very long time from now I'm going to think about "Repulsion" and say to myself "You know that wasn't half bad, maybe I should give it another go", and maybe...just maybe, then I'll see the greatness that Polanski intended.

RATING: 3.5/10 I gave it a few notches for innovation, unique camera angles, sound, score and for brief moments of interest, but really that's as high as I can go, in good conscience.

MOVIES WATCHED: 146
MOVIES LEFT TO WATCH: 855

September 18, 2010 2:43am



Enviar por correo electrónicoEscribe un blogCompartir en XCompartir con Facebook
Posted in Roman Polanski | No comments
Entrada más reciente Entrada antigua Inicio

0 comentarios:

Publicar un comentario

Suscribirse a: Enviar comentarios (Atom)

Popular Posts

  • 411. Khaneh siah ast/The House is Black (1963)
    Running Time: 22 minutes Directed By: Forugh Farrokhzad Written By: Forugh Farrokhzad Main Cast: (narration): Ebrahim Golestan, Forugh F...
  • From 30's to 40's
    I've spent a considerable amount of time getting to know the scope of cinema that was the 1930s. It was a colorful decade, full of lots ...

Categories

  • Aditya Chopra
  • Agnes Varda
  • Albert Brooks
  • Alejandro Jodorowsky
  • Aleksandr Dovzhenko
  • Alexander Mackendrick
  • Alexander Payne
  • Alfred Hitchcock
  • Amy Heckerling
  • Anatole Litvak
  • Andre Delvaux
  • Ang Lee
  • Arthur Penn
  • Barbet Schroeder
  • Ben Sharpsteen
  • Blake Edwards
  • Bob Clark
  • Bob Fosse
  • Bong Joon-ho
  • Busby Berkeley
  • Carl Reiner
  • Carl Theodor Dreyer
  • Carlos Saura
  • Carol Reed
  • Chantal Akerman
  • Charles Chaplin
  • Charles Crichton
  • Charles Vidor
  • Chris Marker
  • Christopher Nolan
  • Claude Chabrol
  • Curtis Hanson
  • Daniel Myrick
  • Danis Tanovic
  • Dario Argento
  • Dariush Mehrjui
  • David Cronenberg
  • David Hand
  • David Lean
  • David Zucker
  • Derek Jarman
  • Don Siegel
  • Dorothy Arzner
  • Douglas Sirk
  • Edgar G. Ulmer
  • Eduardo Sanchez
  • Edward Dmytryk
  • Edward F. Cline
  • Edward Yang
  • Elaine May
  • Elia Kazan
  • Elmar Klos
  • Emeric Pressburger
  • Emile de Antonio
  • Eric Rohmer
  • Ernest B. Schoedsack
  • Ernst Lubitsch
  • Errol Morris
  • F.W. Murnau
  • Federico Fellini
  • Fei Mu
  • Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
  • Forugh Farrokhzad
  • Franco E. Prosperi
  • Francois Girard
  • Frank Capra
  • Frank Darabont
  • Frank Lloyd
  • Franklin J. Schaffner
  • Fred Schepisi
  • Fred Zinnemann
  • Fritz Lang
  • Garry Marshall
  • Gaspar Noe
  • Gene Kelly
  • George A. Romero
  • George Cukor
  • George Marshall
  • George Roy Hill
  • George Stevens
  • George Waggner
  • Georges Franju
  • Gillo Pontecorvo
  • Gregory La Cava
  • Gualtiero Jacopetti
  • Guy Hamilton
  • Hal Ashby
  • Hal Hartley
  • Hamilton Luske
  • Hans Petter Moland
  • Harold Ramis
  • Hayao Miyazaki
  • Hector Babenco
  • Hideo Nakata
  • Hiroshi Teshigahara
  • Howard Hawks
  • Humphrey Jennings
  • Ingmar Bergman
  • Ivan Reitman
  • Jacques Tourneur
  • James Foley
  • James L. Brooks
  • James Whale
  • Jan Kadar
  • Jan Svankmajer
  • Jane Campion
  • Jay Roach
  • Jean Renoir
  • Jean Vigo
  • Jean-Luc Godard
  • Jean-Pierre Jeunet
  • Jean-Pierre Melville
  • Jerome Robbins
  • Jerry Lewis
  • Jim McBride
  • Jim Sharman
  • Jim Sheridan
  • Jiri Menzel
  • Joe Wright
  • Joel Coen
  • John Boorman
  • John Carney
  • John Carpenter
  • John Ford
  • John Frankenheimer
  • John G. Avildsen
  • John Hughes
  • John Huston
  • John Landis
  • John Lasseter
  • John McTiernan
  • John Schlesinger
  • Jonathan Dayton
  • Jonathan Demme
  • Josef von Sternberg
  • Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  • Joseph Losey
  • Julien Duvivier
  • Karel Reisz
  • Ken Loach
  • Kenji Mizoguchi
  • Kenneth Anger
  • Kevin Costner
  • Kevin Smith
  • Kim Ki-duk
  • King Hu
  • King Vidor
  • Larry Charles
  • Lars von Trier
  • Lawrence Kasdan
  • Leni Riefenstahl
  • Leo McCarey
  • Lewis Milestone
  • Lindsay Anderson
  • Lloyd Bacon
  • Lowell Sherman
  • Luis Bunuel
  • Ma-Xu Weibang
  • Marcel Carne
  • Mark Sandrich
  • Marlon Brando
  • Martin Ritt
  • Mel Brooks
  • Mel Stuart
  • Merian C. Cooper
  • Mervyn LeRoy
  • Michael Curtiz
  • Michael Haneke
  • Michael Moore
  • Michael Powell
  • Michael Snow
  • Michelangelo Antonioni
  • Mike Hodges
  • Mike Nichols
  • Miklos Jancso
  • Nelson Pereira dos Santos
  • Norman Jewison
  • Norman Z. McLeod
  • Olivier Dahan
  • Orson Welles
  • Otto Preminger
  • Paolo Cavara
  • Park Chan-wook
  • Paul Haggis
  • Paul Thomas Anderson
  • Penny Marshall
  • Peter Bogdanovich
  • Peter Greenaway
  • Peter Jackson
  • Peter Watkins
  • Peter Weir
  • Phillip Noyce
  • Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • Preston Sturges
  • Quentin Tarantino
  • Randa Haines
  • Raoul Walsh
  • Ray Lawrence
  • Rene Clair
  • Richard Attenborough
  • Richard Lester
  • Richard Linklater
  • Rob Reiner
  • Robert Aldrich
  • Robert Benton
  • Robert J. Flaherty
  • Robert Mulligan
  • Robert Redford
  • Robert Rossen
  • Robert Wise
  • Roger Corman
  • Roman Polanski
  • Rouben Mamoulian
  • Sacha Guitry
  • Sam Mendes
  • Sam Raimi
  • Sam Wood
  • Sergei Parajanov
  • Sergei Yutkevich
  • Sergio Leone
  • Sidney Lumet
  • Stan Brakhage
  • Stanley Donen
  • Stephen Frears
  • Steve James
  • Steven Soderbergh
  • Steven Spielberg
  • Stuart Rosenberg
  • Takashi Miike
  • Tay Garnett
  • Terence Fisher
  • Theo Angelopoulos
  • Thomas Vinterberg
  • Tim Burton
  • Tod Browning
  • Valerie Faris
  • Vera Chytilova
  • Victor Fleming
  • W.S. Van Dyke
  • Wes Craven
  • William A. Seiter
  • William A. Wellman
  • William Cameron Menzies
  • William Dieterle
  • William Friedkin
  • William Keighley
  • William Wyler
  • Wim Wenders
  • Wojciech Has
  • Wolfgang Reitherman
  • Woody Allen

Blog Archive

  • ►  2012 (81)
    • ►  mayo (10)
    • ►  abril (20)
    • ►  marzo (11)
    • ►  febrero (1)
    • ►  enero (39)
  • ►  2011 (216)
    • ►  diciembre (30)
    • ►  noviembre (19)
    • ►  octubre (17)
    • ►  septiembre (2)
    • ►  agosto (23)
    • ►  julio (47)
    • ►  junio (9)
    • ►  mayo (1)
    • ►  abril (25)
    • ►  marzo (20)
    • ►  febrero (22)
    • ►  enero (1)
  • ▼  2010 (190)
    • ►  diciembre (2)
    • ►  noviembre (32)
    • ►  octubre (32)
    • ▼  septiembre (27)
      • 442. Giulietta degli spiriti/Juliet of the Spirits...
      • Coming Soon: 09/26/10 - 10/02/10
      • 400. 8 1/2 (1963)
      • 356. La Dolce Vita (1960)
      • 847. Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
      • 319. Le notti di Cabiria/The Nights of Cabiria
      • FELLINI WEEK EXPANDED
      • 192. Great Expectations (1946)
      • 277. La strada/The Road (1954)
      • Coming Soon: 09/19/10 - 09/25/10
      • 441. Repulsion (1965)
      • 786. Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
      • 183. Brief Encounter (1946)
      • 802. My Left Foot (1989)
      • COMING SOON: 09/12/10 - 09/18/10
      • 317. An Affair to Remember (1957)
      • 912. SCREAM (1996)
      • 490. TARGETS (1968)
      • 214. The Heiress (1949)
      • 516. PATTON (1970)
      • COMING SOON TO A BLOG NEAR YOU!
      • 967. The Pianist (2002)
      • 603. Cria cuervos (1975)
      • 651. Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
      • State of the Blog Address
      • 343. Les yeux sans visage/Eyes Without a Face (1959)
      • 979. Crash (2004)
    • ►  julio (8)
    • ►  junio (4)
    • ►  mayo (1)
    • ►  marzo (25)
    • ►  febrero (34)
    • ►  enero (25)
  • ►  2009 (12)
    • ►  diciembre (12)
Con la tecnología de Blogger.

Datos personales

Unknown
Ver todo mi perfil