Catherine Deneuve stars in Roman Polanski’s masterful 1965 psychological thriller Repulsion. Deneuve is Carol, a young, reserved Frenchwoman living in London with her sister. She works at a salon and keeps to herself, but when her sister goes on vacation, she is left alone in her apartment where unsettling events start to happen. Is any of it real or all in her mind? Polanski directs this slow burn thriller with the utmost precision, crafting one of his finest cinematic works.
“An absolute knockout of a movie” – Bosley Crowther, The New York Times
“Roman Polanski’s first English-language film is still a creepy little horror masterpiece.” – Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly
“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.” – Geoff Andrew, Time Out
“At second glance, or as often as a moviegoer can bear to peek through his knotted fingers, it is a Gothic horror story, a classic chiller of the Psycho school and approximately twice as persuasive.” – TIME Magazine
