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Repulsion (1965)
| Rating: | No Rating |
| Genre: | Suspense/Thriller |
| Release Date: | October 2, 1965 |
| Running time: | 104 minutes |
| Cast: | Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Yvonne Furneaux, Patrick Wymark |
| Director: | Roman Polanski |
| Producer: | Gene Gutowski |
| Writer: | Roman Polanski, Gerard Brach |
| Distributor: | Royal Films International |
Description: The first English-language film of director Roman Polanski is a psychological thriller in the vein of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) and his own later film Rosemary's Baby (1968). Catherine Deneuve stars as Carol Ledoux, a Belgian manicurist living with her sister, Helen (Yvonne Furneaux), in a London flat. Simultaneously attracted and repulsed by sex, Carol is a virgin who finds her sister's relationship with a married man, Michael (Ian Hendry), extremely disturbing. When her sister and Michael go on holiday, Carol begins to disintegrate mentally, hallucinating bizarre encounters, being forced into taking a sabbatical from her job and ultimately committing a pair of murders in her deranged state.~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
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