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For a film that so brilliantly deals with the themes of pornography and its relationship to cinema and spectatorship, perhaps this should come as no surprise. For Repulsion, Roman Polanski’s first ...

In 1964 Polanski came to Britain to make his first three English-language films, beginning with Repulsion, a brilliant, low-budget psychological horror movie. Ten years later he made the ...

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Catch a rare 35mm screening of director Roman Polanski’s first English-language film, “Repulsion.” This creepy 1965 horror flick chronicles the meltdown of a young Catherine Deneuve as she deals with ...

In the swinging London of 1965 only one person isn’t having a good time: a painfully shy Belgian manicurist named Carol (Catherine Deneuve). When she isn’t tending to the corpselike patrons of the ...